Mastering asp.net web api.

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Mastering ASP.NET Web API
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Mithun Pattankar
Malendra Hurbuns
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Mastering ASP.NET Web API
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About the Authors
Mithun Pattankar, who hails from Kalaburgi and lives in Bangalore, India, works with the
leading MNC as a consultant. He has been developing .NET-based applications for over 12
years now. He has an industry-wide experience in building Desktop Apps (WPF), Web
Apps (ASP.NET and client-side frameworks), and Hybrid Mobile apps (Ionic). He is
involved in all aspects of application development, and mentors his junior team members.
He has been actively working on building ASP.NET Web APIs for different frontends and
conducts technical training as well.
Mithun believes in eating sattvic food for healthy living and loves spending time doing
socio-spiritual activities. He occasionally blogs on mithunvp.com and can be reached on
Twitter at (cid:33)(cid:78)(cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:86)(cid:79)(cid:81)(cid:66)(cid:85)(cid:85)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:76)(cid:66)(cid:83).
I would like to thank the team at Packt for giving me a wonderful opportunity to write this
book. It was truly a great learning experience. Also, thanks to the technical reviewer for
providing valuable feedback.
Immense respect and love to my parents for their unconditional love, incredible support,
and prayers. Thanks to my sisters with whom I enjoyed growing up.
For her unconditional love, looking after me during late nights while writing this book, and
supporting me through thick and thin, I would like to thank my wife from the bottom of my
heart.
Lots of love to my cute, adorable son; you're such a blessing for us. Thanks to my best
friends for being there every time.
Finally, and most importantly, I would like to dedicate this book to my guru, HDH
Pramukh Swami Maharaj, who lived "In the joy of others, lies our own;" only by his
blessings and grace, I could accomplish everything in my life.
Malendra Hurbuns is from South Africa, and lives in New Zealand, working for an
Australian Company as a senior software developer. He has been developing in .NET for
over 15 years. He mentors other developers and is involved in all aspects of development.
He loves writing simple code that has a high quality. He is one of the pioneers in web API
in his role, and he has implemented many live systems using ASP.NET Web APIs. TDD is
also a topic close to his heart. He has worked in the accounting, banking, and simulation
industries, which has provided him with a wealth of experience. He is a keen cyclist and
swimmer.
Thank you to my mum and dad who have always supported me in my career, and their
endurance while I was writing this book, which means a lot to me. Thank you to the team
at Packt for guiding me along my first book.
About the Reviewer
Vidya Vrat Agarwal is a .NET passionate, Microsoft MVP, C# Corner MVP, TOGAF
Certified Architect, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), author, speaker, Certified MCT, MCPD,
MCTS, MCSD.NET, MCAD.NET, and MCSD. He is currently working as a .NET Enterprise
architect/consultant in USA. He is passionate about the .NET technology and loves to
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Table of Contents
Preface
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Microservices and Service-Oriented
Architecture
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Services in SOA 8
Service implementation 9
Monolithic architecture 9
Overheads of Monolithic architecture 10
Introducing Microservices 11
Lightweight yet scalable 12
Technology agnostic 12
Independently changeable 12
Benefits of Microservices 14
Summary 15
Chapter 2: Understanding HTTP and REST
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Software architecture 17
REST principles 18
Client - server 18
Stateless 19
Cache 19
The uniform interface 19
Layered system 20
Code-on-demand 20
REST architectural elements 20
Data elements 21
Resources and resource identifiers 21
Representations 22
Connectors 22
Components 23
HTTP 23
HTTP/1.1 status codes 23
An API example 24
HTTP POST example 24
HTTP GET example 26