Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, get some hands-on practice, and explore this chapter's topics with deeper research.

Exercise 18.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. Which base class should you inherit from to create a controller class for an ASP.NET Core Web API service?
2. If you decorate your Controller class with the [ApiController] attribute to get default behavior like automatic 400 responses for invalid models, what else must you do?
3. What must you do to specify which controller action method will be executed in response to an HTTP request?
4. What must you do to specify what responses should be expected when calling an action method?
5. List three methods that can be called to return responses with different status codes.
6. List four ways that you can test a web service.
7. Why should you not wrap you use of HttpClient in a using statement to dispose of it when you...