The Movie Database Support

I have problems to set rating for a movie using .net webclient. I also tried it with .net webrequest. But i didnt get it to work. Hope anyone can help me.

Private Function getGuestSessionId() As String
          
            dim api As String = "xxx"

            Dim WebClient As New WebClient
            WebClient.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/json")
            Dim _json As String = WebClient.DownloadString("http://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/guest_session/new?api_key=" & api)
            WebClient.Dispose()

            Dim arrList As New ArrayList(_json.Split(","c))

            Return Replace(Regex.Replace(arrList(1), "[{:}" & Chr(34) & "]", String.Empty), "guest_session_id", String.Empty)

        End Function

getting the guest_session_id works perfect.

Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
            Try
                Dim api As String = "xxx"

                Dim client As New Net.WebClient
                client.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
                client.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/json")
                Dim responsebytes = client.UploadData("http://themoviedb.apiary.io/3/movie/119680/rating?api_key=" & api & "&guest_session_id=" & getGuestSessionId(), _
                                    "POST", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{" & vbLf & "    ""value"": 7.5" & vbLf & "}"))

            Catch webex As WebException
                MsgBox(webex.Message)
            Catch ex As Exception
                MsgBox(ex.Message)
            End Try

        End Sub

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I can't help with anything VB specific but I can't help but notice the UploadData call is using the testing platform, Apiary. What happens when you use the real production end point? Do you get an error?

What do you mean with "use the real production end point". C# examples will also help :)

Your guest session request is using api.themoviedb.org while the rating call is using themoviedb.apiary.io. Apiary is meant only for testing and most of the time, you'll want to test requests with the real world production environment, api.themoviedb.org. This is especially true for any POST methods like rating.

thx Travis Bell for the hint, now it waorks as it should ;)

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