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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from   Mastering ASP.NET Web API Build powerful HTTP services and make the most of the ASP.NET Core Web API platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463951
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Malendra Hurbuns Malendra Hurbuns
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Mithun Pattankar Mithun Pattankar
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Preface 1. Introduction to Microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding HTTP and REST 3. Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Web API 4. Controllers, Actions, and Models 5. Implementing Routing 6. Middleware and Filters 7. Perform Unit and Integration Testing 8. Web API Security 9. Integration with Database 10. Error Handling, Tracing, and Logging 11. Optimization and Performance 12. Hosting and Deployment 13. Modern Web Frontends

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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...

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