Managing Views with the MashPoint REST API

Now it is time to create, update and delete Views of a list. I suggest that you read all previous posts before continuing on.

• Managing Webs
• Managing Lists
• Managing Fields
• Managing List Items

If you compare this URI to the URI we used in the previous post you notice that they are not the same. This one is much shorter than the one we used before. There are actually different URIs to the same resource. 

[Test]
public void CreateListView()
{
    string uri = L("http://server/mashpoint/1/subweb/MyDocLib/Views");

    WebClient wc = new WebClient();
    wc.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

    NameValueCollection values = new NameValueCollection();

    // required
    values["Name"] = "Created By Me";
    
    values.Add("ViewField", "DocIcon");
    values.Add("ViewField", "LinkFilename");
    values.Add("ViewField", "Author");
    values.Add("ViewField", "Editor");
    // optional
    values["Query"] = @"<Where>" +
                         "<Eq>" +
                            "<FieldRef Name='Author' />" +
                            "<Value Type='Integer'>" +
                              "<UserID Type='Integer' />" +
                            "</Value>" +
                          "</Eq>" +
                        "</Where>";
    values["RowLimit"] = "50";
    values["Paged"] = true.ToString();
    values["DefaultView"] = false.ToString();
    values["PersonalView"] = true.ToString();

    WebClientHelper.UploadValues(uri, "POST", wc, values);  
    string newuri = wc.ResponseHeaders.Get("Location");
    Console.WriteLine(newuri);
}

You might ask why we are using WebClientHelper.UploadValues instead of wc.UploadValues. The reason for this is that the WebClient class has a bug. It doesn't send multi valued fields properly. So we have created this helper class. This is the second shortcoming of the WebClient class we have run into. If someone knows about a better helper class to use we would love to hear from you.You can download WebClientHelper.cs here.

[Test]
public void UpdateListView()
{
    string uri = L("http://server/mashpoint/1/subweb/MyDocLib" +
    "/Views/e0f6267a-e7f3-4184-912d-96e720c9c0b5");

    WebClient wc = new WebClient();
    wc.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

    NameValueCollection values = new NameValueCollection();

    values["RowLimit"] = "100";
    wc.UploadValues(uri, "PUT", values); 
}

[Test]
public void DeleteListView()
{
    string uri = L("http://server/mashpoint/1/subweb/MyDocLib" +
    "/Views/e0f6267a-e7f3-4184-912d-96e720c9c0b5");

    WebClient wc = new WebClient();
    wc.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
    wc.UploadString(uri, "DELETE", string.Empty);
}