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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

Response caching

In ASP.NET Core, response caching middleware allows response caching. It adds cache-related headers to responses. These headers specify how you want client, proxy, and middleware to cache responses.

To use this, we need to include its package using NuGet, as per .NET Core 2.0 latest version relevant packages are pre-installed:

"Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCaching": "2.0.0-preview2-final " 

After the package is installed, update the Startup class to add ResponseCaching to a services collection:

    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) 
    {    
       //Response Caching Middleware 
       // Code removed for brevity 
       services.AddResponseCaching(); 
       services.AddMvc(); 
    } 

Also include the ResponseCaching middleware in HTTP pipeline processing:

    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment...
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