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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)

Link generation

The routing mechanism provides enough to link to the routes in the application, however, at times, generating links pointing to specific routes becomes essential. We can achieve custom links using the link generation concept.

ASP.NET Core provides the UrlHelper class, an implementation of the IUrlHelper interface to build URLs for an ASP.NET Core application (MVC or web API). The methods CreatedAtRoute and CreatedAtAction are two inbuilt methods for link generation. Let's use them in an example:

    using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc; 
    using System.Collections.Generic; 
    using System.Linq; 
 
    namespace BasicRoute.Controllers 
    { 
      public class TodoController : Controller 
      { 
        // List containing Todo Items 
        List<TodoTasks> TodoList = new List<TodoTasks>(); 
 
        // Gets Todo item details based on Id 
   ...