C# Mingle On-Site API to fetch cards

The following script is used to fetch the cards along with the Card Description and Card Type from a project in your Mingle On-Site instance.

 

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

using System.IO;

using System.Net;

using System.Text;

using System.Xml.Linq;

 

namespace ConsoleApplication

{

    public class Program

    {

        public static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            getCards();

        }

 

      public static void getCards() {

 

    String url = "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/projects/<project_identifer>/cards.xml";

    HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.CreateDefault(new Uri(url));

 

    String username = “<username>”;

    String password = “<passcode>“;

 

    byte[] credentials = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(username + ":" + password);

    String base64Credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(credentials);

    req.Headers.Add("Authorization",

                    string.Format("Basic {0}", base64Credentials));

 

    StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());

            Console.WriteLine(req);

 

    IEnumerable<Card> cards = (from node in XDocument.Load(reader).Descendants("card")

                 select new Card

                            {

                                Name = node.Element("name").Value,

                                CardType = node.Element("card_type").Value,

                                Description = node.Element("description").Value

                            });

   foreach (var card in cards) {

                Console.WriteLine(card);

    }

 

    }

 class Card {

    public String Name;

    public String CardType;

    public String Description;   

 

public override string ToString(){

        return Name +"   "+ CardType +"   "+ Description;

 

    }

console.WriteLine(“Press enter to close.”);

console.ReadLine();

 

}

    }

 

}