Lesson 10 - Displaying Json

SpectreDemos/Helpers.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+using Spectre.Console;
+
+namespace SpectreDemos;
+
+public static class Helpers
+{
+    public static async Task<string> FetchApiDataAsync(string apiUrl)
+    {
+        using var client = new HttpClient();
+
+        try
+        {
+            HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(apiUrl);
+            response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
+            return await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
+
+        }
+        catch (Exception ex)
+        {
+            AnsiConsole.MarkupLine($"[red]Error fetching data from API:[/]{ex.Message}");
+            return string.Empty;
+        }
+
+    }
+}

SpectreDemos/Program.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 using Spectre.Console;
+using Spectre.Console.Json;
+using SpectreDemos;
 
 #region "Previous Lessons"
 //Lesson 2 - Initial Setup
@@ -149,21 +151,38 @@
 ////panel.Padding(2, 1);
 
 ////AnsiConsole.Write(panel);
-#endregion
 
 // Lesson 9 - FIGlet Text
 
-AnsiConsole.Write(new FigletText("Hello")
+////AnsiConsole.Write(new FigletText("Hello")
-        .Centered()
+////        .Centered()
-        .Color(Color.Red)
+////        .Color(Color.Red)
+////);
+
+////FigletText figlet = new("World");
+////figlet.Centered();
+////figlet.Color(Color.Red);
+
+////AnsiConsole.Write(figlet);
+#endregion
+
+// Lesson 10 - Displaying Json
+
+string jsonResponse = await Helpers.FetchApiDataAsync("https://thesampleapi.com/courses/12");
+
+JsonText json = new JsonText(jsonResponse);
+
+json.StringColor(Color.Yellow);
+json.ColonColor(Color.Orange1);
+
+
+AnsiConsole.Write(
+    new Panel(json)
+        .Header("API Results")
+        .Collapse()
+        .BorderColor(Color.White)
     );
 
-FigletText figlet = new("World");
-figlet.Centered();
-figlet.Color(Color.Red);
-
-AnsiConsole.Write(figlet);
-
 Console.ReadLine();
 AnsiConsole.Clear();
 

SpectreDemos/SpectreDemos.csproj

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
   <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="Spectre.Console" Version="0.50.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Spectre.Console.Json" Version="0.50.0" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>