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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.

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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core
Gaurav Aroraa | Tadit Dash
May, 2018 | 334 pages
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Getting Started
Getting Started
Discussing RESTful services
ASP.NET Core and RESTful services
Summary
2
Building the Initial Framework – Laying the Foundation of the Application
Building the Initial Framework – Laying the Foundation of the Application
SOAP
REST
Setting up the environment
SOAP versus REST
Single-page application model
Service-oriented architecture
Summary
3
User Registration and Administration
User Registration and Administration
Why authentication and limiting requests?
Database design
User registration
Adding basic authentication to our REST API
Adding OAuth 2.0 authentication to our service
Client-based API-consumption architecture
Summary
4
Item Catalogue, Cart, and Checkout
Item Catalogue, Cart, and Checkout
Implementing controllers
Product listing
Product searching
Adding to cart
Implementing security
Placing orders
Exposing shipping details
Summary
5
Integrating External Components and Handling
Integrating External Components and Handling
Understanding the middleware
Adding logging to our API in middleware
Summary
6
Testing RESTful Web Services
Testing RESTful Web Services
Test paradigms
Testing approach
Types of tests
Summary
7
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Introduction – deployment terminology
The Azure environment
Publishing/hosting
Summary
8
Securing RESTful Web Services
Securing RESTful Web Services
OWASP security standards
Securing RESTful web services
Authentication and authorization in action
Summary
9
Scaling RESTful Services (Performance of Web Services)
Scaling RESTful Services (Performance of Web Services)
Clustering
Load balancing
Introduction to scalability
Distributed caching
Summary
10
Building a Web Client (Consuming Web Services)
Building a Web Client (Consuming Web Services)
Consuming RESTful web services
Building a REST web client
Implementing a REST web client
Summary
11
Introduction to Microservices
Introduction to Microservices
Overview of microservices
Understanding microservice architecture
Communication in microservices
Why we should use microservices
How a microservice architecture works
Advantages of microservices
Scaling
DevOps culture
Microservices ecosystem in ASP.NET Core
Summary
12
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SOAP versus REST

Following are some key differences between SOAP and REST:

SOAP
REST
It is an XML-based message protocol. It is an architectural style.
WSDL is used for communication between client and server. XML or JSON is used to send and receive data between client and server.
Services are invoked by calling the RPC method. Services expose endpoints via URLs.
Response is easily readable by a human. Response is readable in the form of plain XML or JSON.
Data transfer occurs over HTTP. It leverages protocols such as SMTP, FTP, and so on. REST data transfer occurs over HTTP only.
It is difficult to call a SOAP service from JavaScript. It is very easy to call a REST service from JavaScript.
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