Program.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace MyPrintNode
{
 class Program
 {
 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
 try
 {
 new Program().run();
 }
 catch (Exception e)
 {
 Console.Error.WriteLine("error connecting to server");
 Console.Error.WriteLine(e.Message + "\n\n");
 Console.Error.WriteLine(e.StackTrace);
 Console.ReadKey();
 }
 }

 private void run()
 {
 // instance of api client
 PrintNodeService service = new PrintNodeService(
 "https://api.printnode.com/",
 "<api key>");

 // submits a print job and prints out the printjob ID
 Console.WriteLine("Print Job ID is " + service.SubmitPrintJob());

 // gets a list of all submitted print jobs
 Console.WriteLine("Below is list of Print Jobs in json:");
 Console.WriteLine(service.GetPrintJobs());

 // gets a list of all computers registered with PrintNode account
 Console.WriteLine("\n\n\n\n Below is list of Computers: ");
 Console.WriteLine(service.GetComputers());

 // gets a list of all printers registered with PrintNode account
 Console.WriteLine("\n\n\n\n Below is list of Printers: ");
 Console.WriteLine(service.GetPrinters());

 // haults program from exiting
 Console.ReadKey();
 }
 }

 // PrintNodeService.cs
 public class PrintNodeService
 {
 private readonly string address;
 private readonly string username;

 // TODO send base64 image
 // TODO remove this
 private readonly Dictionary<string, string> Endpoints = new Dictionary<string, string>()
			{
				{"Computers", "computers"},
				{"Printers", "printers"},
				{"PrintJobs", "printjobs"}
			};

 public PrintNodeService(string address, string username)
 {
 this.address = address;
 this.username = username;
 }

 public string GetComputers()
 {
 return Get("Computers");
 }

 public string GetPrinters()
 {
 return Get("Printers");
 }

 public string GetPrintJobs()
 {
 return Get("PrintJobs");
 }

 /**
 * @return string id of printjob
 */
 public string SubmitPrintJob()
 {

 string source = "PrintNodeApi/3.0";
 string title = "YukonTestPdf";
 string printerId = "1";

 var sb = new StringBuilder();
 sb.Append("{");
 sb.Append("\"printer\": " + printerId + ",");
 sb.Append("\"title\": \"" + title + "\",");
 sb.Append("\"contentType\": \"pdf_uri\",");
 sb.Append("\"title\": \"" + title + "\",");
 sb.Append("\"content\": \"" + "http://www.education.gov.yk.ca/pdf/pdf-test.pdf" + "\",");
 sb.Append("\"source\": \"PrintNodeApi/1.0\"");
 sb.Append("}");
 

 string response = Post("PrintJobs", sb.ToString());

 // strips off quotes around the id
 if (response != null)
 {
 return response.Substring(1, response.Length - 2);
 }
 else
 {
 return response;
 }
 }

 private Uri BuildUri(string dir)
 {
 if (!Endpoints.ContainsKey(dir))
 {
 throw new Exception("no endpoint defined for " + dir + ". consider adding the endpoint to the Endpoints dictionary defined in PrintNodeService class");
 }
 var url = address + '/' + Endpoints[dir];
 return new Uri(url);
 }

 private HttpWebRequest BuildRequest(string dir, String method)
 {
 var uri = BuildUri(dir);

 ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
 var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
 // headers
 request.Method = method;
 request.ContentType = "application/json";

 // basic authentication
 string credentials = String.Format("{0}:", username);
 byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(credentials);
 string base64 = Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
 string authorization = String.Concat("Basic ", base64);
 request.Headers.Add("Authorization", authorization);

 return request;
 }

 private string getResponseBody(HttpWebRequest request)
 {
 // gets response
 HttpWebResponse response = null;
 response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
 return new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
 }

 private string Get(string dir)
 {
 var request = BuildRequest(dir, "GET");
 return getResponseBody(request);
 }

 private string Post(string dir, string postData)
 {
 var request = BuildRequest(dir, "POST");

 // data
 var data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
 request.ContentLength = data.Length;

 // writes data

 var requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
 requestStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
 requestStream.Close();

 return getResponseBody(request);

 }
 }
}