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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

You're reading from   Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3 Design production-ready, testable, and flexible RESTful APIs for web applications and microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789537611
Length 510 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Samuele Resca Samuele Resca
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Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started FREE CHAPTER
2. REST 101 and Getting Started with ASP.NET Core 3. Section 2: Overview of ASP.NET Core
4. Overview of ASP.NET Core 5. Working with the Middleware Pipeline 6. Dependency Injection System 7. Web Service Stack in ASP.NET Core 8. Routing System 9. Filter Pipeline 10. Section 3: Building a Real-World RESTful API
11. Building the Data Access Layer 12. Implementing the Domain Logic 13. Implementing the RESTful HTTP Layer 14. Advanced Concepts of Building an API 15. The Containerization of Services 16. Service Ecosystem Patterns 17. Implementing Worker Services Using .NET Core 18. Securing Your Service 19. Section 4: Advanced Concepts for Building Services
20. Caching Web Service Responses 21. Logging and Health Checking 22. Deploying Services on Azure 23. Documenting Your API Using Swagger 24. Testing Services Using Postman 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Overview of Postman

Postman can be used within a company to share internal APIs and applies the concept of collections so that it can group, index, and query web services. A collection is a group of HTTP calls related to the same service or a collection of services.

The following screenshot shows a conventional UI for Postman. On the left, you can see a list of collections that are available in the Postman account, while on the right, you can see the core part of the UI:

The first half of the UI represents the HTTP request we intend to launch. Each tab at the top of the interface represents an API call; it is possible to type in a URL and specify the HTTP verb on the left. For each request, it is also possible to specify the query parameters, the authorization specification, the headers, the body, and some scripts that we will execute before and after every request.

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