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Web Api 2.0: BY Amareswara Rao

This document provides an overview of key features in Web API 2.0, including self-hosting, attribute routing, parameter binding, filtering requests, and using IHTTPActionResult to set HTTP status codes. It discusses topics like hosting Web API in IIS or self-hosting in a console app, using attributes to define routes and HTTP verbs, binding parameters from the URL, body or headers, and applying authorization and exception filters.

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Web Api 2.0: BY Amareswara Rao

This document provides an overview of key features in Web API 2.0, including self-hosting, attribute routing, parameter binding, filtering requests, and using IHTTPActionResult to set HTTP status codes. It discusses topics like hosting Web API in IIS or self-hosting in a console app, using attributes to define routes and HTTP verbs, binding parameters from the URL, body or headers, and applying authorization and exception filters.

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WEB API 2.

BY
AMARESWARA RAO
INTRODUCTION
WEB API 2.0

Why Web API ?

For building RESTful applications on the .NET Framework

What are the features of WEB API 2.0 ?

Attribute Routing

Self Host

IHTTPActionResult

Filter Overrides

Testability
CONTENTS
WEB API 2.0

Self-Hosted Web API

Web-Hosted Web API

Global vs Attribute Routing

Verb Names/Action Methods

Binding Parameters

Filtering Requests

HTTP Status Codes with IHTTPActionResult


WEB HOSTED WEB API
WEB API 2.0
System.Web.Http.WebHost.dll

Default Hosting Process

App_Startup -> WebApiConfig.cs

Web-hosted Web API only supports a single server and single configuration file.

Global.asax - GlobalConfiguration.Configuration to config


SELF HOSTED WEB API
WEB API 2.0

System.Web.Http.SelfHost.dll

Hosting inside of a console application/GUI application/Windows Service.

NuGet - Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.SelfHost -> System.Net.Http, System.Web.Http

console app - place the code in main function


VERB NAMES/ACTION METHODS
WEB API 2.0

Verb Names : Get , Post , Put , Delete , Head , Patch , and


Options

Default Verb : POST

[HttpXyz]

Allowed verbs : [AcceptVerb("Get , Post , Put , Delete")]


DELETE

PUT
POST

GET
BINDING PARAMETERS
WEB API 2.0

action method signature and include parameters, complex types/


simple types

simple types -> int/string -> not from the body(model binders are
responsible)

complex types -> class types -> from the body (formatters are
responsible)

Parameter Binding : [ModelBinding],[FromUri],[FromBody]


FILTERING REQUESTS
WEB API 2.0

Filters are now part of the asynchronous pipeline

[AuthorizeAttribute] X [AllowAnonymousAttribute]

AuthorizationFilterAttribute : filter run before any parameter


binding has happened And Authorization filters run before action
filters.

ActionFilterAttribute : filters run after parameter binding has


happened

ExceptionFilterAttribute : new response object


IHTTPACTIONRESULT
WEB API 2.0

IHTTPActionResult

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