refit: Disable Refit from hiding HTTP content in case response code wasn't 200 (ApiException)

By the way, with the above GroupList method, and assuming an error response like this:

public class ErrorResponse
{
    public string Message { get;set; }
}

All you would have to do is:

try
{
    var users = api.GroupList(groupId);
    // do something with users
}
catch(ApiException ex)
{
   var statusCode = ex.StatusCode;
   var error = ex.GetContentAs<ErrorResponse>();
   // deal with error.Message or something
}

You still get the automatic mapping for successful cases, and I don’t see how it adds much work when it fails. Can you explain why this isn’t enough, and more importantly - exactly how you see it working otherwise?

That’s all great, but this means I will change all my Refit from the elegant

[Get("/group/{id}/users")]
Task<List<User>> GroupList([AliasAs("id")] int groupId);

to

Task<List<HttpResponseMessage>> GroupList([AliasAs("id")] int groupId);

Which kinda beats the purpose of Refit in the first place.

Let me share with you my implementation. I am using ASP.NET WebAPI, and I am enapsulating all my responses in a standard Json envelope:

public class JsonResponseResult<T>
    {
        //public string Version { get { return "1.2.3"; } }
        public bool Success => string.IsNullOrEmpty(ErrorMessage);
        public string ErrorMessage { get; set; }
        public T Result { get; set; }
        public JsonResponseResult(T result = default(T), string errorMessage = null)
        {
            Result = result;
            ErrorMessage = errorMessage;
        }
    }

Which the mobile has an identical one over. so my Refit is like:

[Headers ("Accept: application/json")]
public interface IMyApi
{
    [Get ("/api/entities")]
    Task<JsonResponseDto<MyDto>> Get();
}

and on mobile, I can easily check validity by doing

var response = await APIs.Get();
if (Response.Success)
{
   ///YAAAYY
}
else
{
   //BOOO
}

IMHO it should be possible to disable the Exception and offer a way to examine the response object including the Status code.