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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By : Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash
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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By: Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash

Overview of this book

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of ASP.NET Core makes it a breeze for developers to work with for building robust web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the ASP.NET Core framework to implement these services. This book begins by introducing you to the basics of the philosophy behind REST. You'll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. This book takes a practical approach, that you can apply to your own circumstances. This book brings forth the power of the latest .NET Core release, working with MVC. Later, you will learn about the use of the framework to explore approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You will explore the steps to improve the performance of your applications. You'll also learn techniques to deal with security in web APIs and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies. By the end of the book, you will have a complete understanding of Building a client for RESTful web services, along with some scaling techniques.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

User Registration and Administration

We built the foundation of the app in the last chapter, where we also explored the HTTP verbs in detail while creating a controller inside the ASP.NET Core Web API.

Now, we are gradually moving toward an important aspect of the API, called authentication. Authentication is definitely a required component because of the ease of accessibility of the API. Limiting the requests and putting a restriction on them would prevent malicious attacks.

Users of your application, or customers, in our case, need a registration form/interface where their details can be grabbed by the system. We will see how to register users with the API.

After you register and have all the details of the customers, such as email and password, it will be easy for you to identify the requests coming from a client. Wait, that is easy, but there are principles we need to follow...