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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

By : Mithun Pattankar
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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

By: Mithun Pattankar

Overview of this book

Microsoft has unified their main web development platforms. This unification will help develop web applications using various pieces of the ASP.NET platform that can be deployed on both Windows and LINUX. With ASP.NET Core (Web API), it will become easier than ever to build secure HTTP services that can be used from any client. Mastering ASP.NET Web API starts with the building blocks of the ASP.NET Core, then gradually moves on to implementing various HTTP routing strategies in the Web API. We then focus on the key components of building applications that employ the Web API, such as Kestrel, Middleware, Filters, Logging, Security, and Entity Framework.Readers will be introduced to take the TDD approach to write test cases along with the new Visual Studio 2017 live unit testing feature. They will also be introduced to integrate with the database using ORMs. Finally, we explore how the Web API can be consumed in a browser as well as by mobile applications by utilizing Angular 4, Ionic and ReactJS. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply best practices to develop complex Web API, consume them in frontend applications and deploy these applications to a modern hosting infrastructure.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

We looked at the definition of REST and how REST is derived. When you look at the REST architecture, you should be able to depict it in three categories, as explained by Roy T. Fielding. One, the process view, describes how data flows from the client to the several components. Two, the connector view is specific to the exchanging of messages between components specific to resources and resource identification. Three, the data view of how the data that we referred to as representations is transmitted from the server to the client. It is very important to have a good understanding of the REST principles and that REST was applied to HTTP 1.0 in order to derive HTTP 1.1.

HTTP is a living example of the REST principles. Actions such as GET and POST are stateless, which is a principle of REST. The examples show how to construct an HTTP request and what the server sends back...