let's say I have an email account and every time I get a new email I want to receive this information in my c# code and save some info of that email in json format, I have read about Context.IO, Webhooks, but I have not find any information yet about doing it with C# code, could you please give an advice of how can I reach that in my c# code? I have an ASP.net MVC app, I just want to get some data about a new email every time is received, I have never worked before with Context.IO or webhooks. How can I do this in C#?
UPDATE:
[HttpPost]
[System.Web.Mvc.ValidateInput(false)]
public IHttpActionResult GetEmail(System.Web.Mvc.FormCollection form)
{
Person person = new Person {
Name= System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Unvalidated.Form["Account_id"],
LastName= System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Unvalidated.Form["webhook_id"]
};
db.People.Add(person);
db.SaveChanges();
return Ok();
}
Context.IO pretty much does what you're looking for with webhooks. Essentially, you would setup a webhook filter on a user (https://context.io/docs/lite/users/webhooks) and provide which filters to watch out for, if any. Set up an endpoint on your app to receive the webhooks, and when a new message is received by the user, you should receive a webhook postback on that endpoint.
If you just want to test out the webhooks without setting up an endpoint on your end, I would recommend a tool like Mockbin, which allows you to set up mock endpoints and receive data http://mockbin.org/
The payload is in json, so it should be easy to parse on your end. The only thing is that Context.IO does not have a C# library, but you could use a library of your choice (or something like restsharp) to develop straight against the REST API.