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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

Attribute-based Routing

In the world of .NET programming, the tag that adds the declaration information of the various elements such as classes, methods, and enum to programs are called as attributes.

ASP.NET Web API 2 introduced the concept of Attribute-based Routing, giving more control over the URIs in a web API. This helps us to easily build URIs that have hierarchies of resources.

In ASP.NET Core apps, Attribute-based Routing is provided by default. In the Configure method of the Startup class, the line app.UseMvc() indicates to include the MVC middleware in the request processing pipeline.

In the section ASP.NET Core Web API and Routing, we explained how Attribute-based Routing is implemented by default unlike ASP.NET Web API 2, where it had to be explicitly enabled in the configuration.

AttributeRouting.CreateAttributeMegaRoute does this heavy work of iterating through...

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