Refit Performance

Refit is a framework for easily calling Web API endpoints from C#.

This project intends to answer the question:

Question

What is the performance overhead added by Refit?

Answer

Refit is adding an overhead of around half a millisecond.

Implementation

The Server

RefitPerformance.WebApi - The web server containing two endpoints:

• POST /dummy/{id}/test1
  • Endpoint with a model populated from request body.
• POST /dummy/{id}/test2
  • Request type: multipart/form-data
  • Model populated from the request parts.

The Client

RefitPerformance.Client.Cli - A console application to manually call the two endpoints.

The Benchmark

RefitPerformance.Benchmark - A console application that uses BenchmarkDotNet to call the two endpoints with and without using Refit. It results 4 benchmark tests:

• Call the normal endpoint without Refit.
• Call the normal endpoint with Refit.
• Call the multipart endpoint without Refit.
• Call the multipart endpoint with Refit.