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Chapter 1. Getting Started with the ASP.NET Web API

ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building HTTP Services. It is part of the ASP.NET platform, which is a free web framework for building websites and services.

Microsoft Azure makes building web services extremely easy. It provides the backbone for hosting scalable Web APIs and then efficiently managing and monitoring them.

In this chapter, we get to know the ASP.NET Web API framework. We delve into the fundamentals of the components that encompass the ASP.NET Web API, walk through the request-response pipeline of ASP.NET Web API, and also talk about the main features provided by the framework that make development of ASP.NET Web API a breeze. We then begin with the essential step of creating our first ASP.NET Web API and then deploy it in Microsoft Azure.

The ASP.NET Web API framework

ASP.NET Web API provides an easy and extensible mechanism to expose data and functionality to a broad range of clients, including browsers and modern web and mobile apps. The most significant aspect of ASP.NET Web API is that it is targeted to enable support for HTTP and RESTful services. In this section, we will discuss the nuts and bolts of the Web API framework.

Note

In the context of this book, the words ASP.NET Web API, Web API, and HTTP Services represent the same thing unless explicitly mentioned. This chapter assumes that the reader has knowledge about HTTP, REST, and Web API, in general. For more information on these technologies, please refer to the introduction chapter of this book.

Background

Before we delve into the building blocks and design principles behind ASP.NET Web API, it is important to understand that ASP.NET Web API is an evolution of the existing continuous Microsoft efforts to enable support for HTTP Services. A timeline of events that describe this evolution are outlined next.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731082%28v=vs.110%29.aspx) was launched with .NET 3.0 for SOAP-based services; the primary aim was to abstract the transport layer and enable support for the WS-* protocol. No HTTP features were enabled except HTTP POST for requests

In NET 3.5, WebHttpBinding (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.webhttpbinding%28v=vs.110%29.aspx) was introduced in WCF with the intent to support services that were not based on SOAP. It allowed systems to configure endpoints for WCF services that are exposed through HTTP requests instead of SOAP messages. The implementation was very basic and...

Building blocks

As described in the previous section, ASP.NET Web API is built on top of existing frameworks and technologies. Web API leverages features from ASP.NET MVC, the core ASP.NET framework, and the .NET framework to reduce the overall learning curve for developers and at the same time provides abstraction to make programming easier. The following figure highlights the key features that make up the ASP.NET Web API framework.

Building blocks

Note

ASP.NET Web API leverages some standard features from the ASP.NET MVC framework. Though expertise in ASP.NET MVC is not a requirement for developing HTTP Services using ASP.NET Web API, a fundamental understanding of the ASP.NET MVC framework and the MVC design pattern is useful. More information about the ASP.NET MVC framework is available at http://www.asp.net/mvc.

Design principles behind the ASP.NET Web API

Now that we understand the intent behind ASP.NET Web API, let's discuss some design principles on which ASP.NET Web API is based:

  • Distributed by design: ASP.NET Web API considers HTTP as a first-class citizen and has inherent support for REST. It enables a framework for creating distributed services that leverage HTTP features such as stateless, caching, and compression.
  • Russian Doll Model: This is also called the Matryoshka doll model, which refers to a set of wooden dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. Architecturally, it denotes a recognizable relationship of nested objects (object within an object). The ASP.NET Web API messaging handlers leverage this principle to define the request-response pipeline. Each handler in the pipeline is responsible for processing the incoming request and then delegating the request to another handler. When a request reaches a handler, it may opt to process it, validate it, and then delegate...

Application scenarios

As mentioned before, ASP.NET Web API enables customers to easily and rapidly develop HTTP-based services that can result in new business opportunities or improved customer satisfaction. Some of these scenarios are described here:

  • Mashup: This refers to accessing content from more than one service and then creating a new service typically via a user interface. For example, multiple services exposed by the Bing Maps API can be used by a consumer to create a map-plotting user interface that can show the location of nearby location on a map.
  • Smartphone apps: This is a no-brainer; the mobile app market is one of the most booming markets today. An independent survey suggests that around 56 billion apps were downloaded in 2013 generating revenue of around $20-25 billion, and this number is only going to increase in the coming years. ASP.NET Web API provides multiple client libraries to offer developers with quick and easy ways to create HTTP Services. Moreover, Microsoft Azure...

Behind the scenes with the ASP.NET Web API

Let's talk about some of the internal workings of ASP.NET Web API and how a request is received and a corresponding response generated.

Anatomy of the API of ASP.NET Web API

Before we understand the request and response lifecycle within ASP.NET Web API, it is important to comprehend some of the principal types and their usage within the pipeline.

The core assemblies for ASP.NET Web API can be installed using the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi NuGet package, which is distributed under the MS license, this will install all the required dependencies to develop an ASP.NET Web API service.

Note

NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform, including .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. NuGet is installed as part of the Visual Studio 2013 release. To know more about NuGet, visit https://www.nuget.org/.

To install the runtime packages via the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio use...

Routing and dispatching

The routing and dispatching stage primarily involves the execution of a series of message handlers, which process the incoming request and then delegate them to the next message handler for processing. In earlier versions of ASP.NET Web API, we could only configure message handlers globally per application. All the message handlers were added to the HttpConfiguration.MessageHandlers collection and were executed for each request. The global configuration was enabled using the Register method in the WebApiConfig.cs file, which gets added when creating a new ASP.NET Web API project. We talk more about the WebApiConfig and Register method in the Creating our first ASP.NET Web API section. The following snippet show a sample Register method definition:

public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{

    config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
       name: "DefaultApi",
       routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
       defaults: new { id = RouteParameter...

Creating our first ASP.NET Web API

In this section, we will start building our Web API, covering the necessary environment required for creating a Web API. We will also discuss our problem scenario, and then create a Web API from scratch. We will then delve into the details of Microsoft Azure websites and deploy our first Web API in Microsoft Azure.

Prerequisites

The following must be configured to run the example scenarios we discuss in this and following chapters:

  • Developer machine: We need a development environment that can support Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET Web tools. Although we can create ASP.NET Web API solutions from a local PC, for the purpose of this book, we will host a new virtual machine in Microsoft Azure and use it as our development environment. Setting up and managing an environment on Microsoft Azure is so straightforward and elegant, that it is now used as a preferred way to develop applications.
  • A Microsoft Azure subscription: We need a Microsoft Azure subscription...

Testing the Web API

Now that we have a Web API created, we will look at options to validate our Web API functionality. Testing is a crucial stage in the creation of Web API development and publishing. There are a couple of different ways of doing this. We can just test it by requesting the URL in a browser or write code and leverage the System.Net.HttpClient type. This section discusses both of these approaches.

Testing in a browser

Testing a Web API is as simple as developing it, since each action in a Web API controller represents a resource, we can just type the URL of the resource and fetch the results.

  1. Press F5 in Visual Studio to launch the Web API in a browser.
  2. Visit the following URL:

    http://localhost:<PORT>/api/package/1

    Note

    Note that the port will be allocated by IIS Express and will be different for each installation.

  3. This yields a result similar to the following in the browser:
    {
    "Id": 1,
    "AccountNumber": "43a2a3eb-e0b8-4840-9e5e-192214a79d58...

Committing changes to Git

In the previous section, we built and tested our Web API. Now, we discuss how to use Visual Studio Online and Git for source control management. Note that this section assumes that we have a Git repository created and available. It does not give a walkthrough of setting up a Git repository within VSO.

Note

The Microsoft Virtual Academy has an excellent tutorial for using Visual Studio Online with Git it is highly recommended to understand these concepts before proceeding with this section: http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/using-git-with-visual-studio-2013-jump-start.

We will now commit the change to Visual Studio Online. Visual Studio 2013 provides a rich integration with Git so we can commit the changes without opening the Git command prompt:

  1. Right-click on the Contoso.Transport.Service solution file in the Solution Explorer, and click on Add Solution to Source Control.
  2. A dialog box is displayed with options for available source control systems...

Deploying the ASP.NET Web API using Azure Websites

Microsoft Azure Websites is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from Microsoft, which allows publishing web apps in Azure. The key focus when building Microsoft websites is to enable a true enterprise-ready PaaS service by allowing rapid deployment, better manageability, global scale at high throughput, and support for multiple platforms. The development of Azure Websites started about 3 years ago under the internal project name Antares with the primary intent to create a cheap and scalable web hosting framework for Microsoft Azure. The main target was shared and cross-platform hosting scenarios. The first preview release for Azure Websites came out in June 2012 and went General Availability (GA) in mid-2013.

Note

Azure Websites was recently renamed and is now part of Azure App Services. REST based service development is now referred to as API apps. For the scope of this book, we will focus on the existing service implementation. To learn...

Continuous Deployment using Azure Websites

In the previous section, we used Visual Studio tools to deploy our Web API in Microsoft Azure Websites. The Visual Studio deployment option works well for one-off deployments or small development projects. However, in real-world scenarios, customers prefer integrating builds with automated deployments. Azure Websites provides continuous deployment from source code control and repository tools such as BitBucket, CodePlex, Dropbox, Git, GitHub, Mercurial, and Team Foundation Server. We can, in fact, do a Git deployment from a local machine!

For the purpose of this sample, we use VSO and Git as our repository. Let's take a look at how we can configure Visual Studio Online for our Continuous Deployments (CD):

  1. Go to the Azure portal and browse to the Azure Website we just created. From the dashboard, select setup deployment from source control. When using the new preview portal, this option will be in the Deployment section as Set up continuous deployment...

Summary

This chapter provided an overview of the what, why, and how of an ASP.NET Web API. ASP.NET Web API is a next generation service that enables support for a first-class modern HTTP programming model. It provides abundant support for formats and content negotiation, and request validation.

We talked about the foundational elements of a Web API. We then discussed its usage scenarios and components, and also discussed the classes that make up the API. We went through the request-response pipeline and walked through the message lifecycle of a request. We then created our first simple Web API for a simplified customer scenario and walked through its development, testing, and deployment using Azure Websites. In the next chapter, we will look into advanced capabilities of ASP.NET Web API, and see how these capabilities can be used to customize different aspects of the ASP.NET Web API request-response pipeline.

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Getting to know HTTP
HTTP 2.0
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Web API and Microsoft Azure
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1. Getting Started with the ASP.NET Web API
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Background
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Routing and dispatching
Creating our first ASP.NET Web API
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Managing a Web API
Consuming the Web API
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Stephen Kaufman works for Microsoft as a solution architect in the Americas Office of the CTO and is the lead architect for the US Azure PaaS Center of Expertise (CoE). He is a public speaker and has appeared at a variety of industry conferences nationally and internationally at events, such as TechEd North America, TechEd EMEA, Microsoft SOA and BPM conference, as well as many internal Microsoft conferences over the years discussing application development, integration, and cloud computing, as well as a variety of other related topics. Stephen is also a published author with two booksPro BizTalk 2009 (http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219815) and Pro Windows Server AppFabric (http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430228172), both by Apress Publishingas well as a number of whitepapers and other published content, including a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/skaufman. In addition, he is a board certified architect (CITA-P-IASA Global) and continues to work mentoring and sitting on architecture certification review boards. Lastly, Stephen was a contributing author for the Azure Architecture Certification Exam 70-534, Architecting Azure Solutions.
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