Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core

Name: Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core
Brand: Simon + Schuster LLC
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Valerio de Sanctis(Author)

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Published on 11. July 2023

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Build fully-featured APIs with ASP.NET Core! This all-practical guide is written like a real development project, taking you hands-on with modern APIs utilizing REST and GraphQL standards. In Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core you will learn how to:

Set up your environment with VS 2022, Node, Git, and more
Create a ASP.NET Core project from scratch
Integrate with SQL Server
Use Entity Framework Core to set up a data model
Create back-end controllers
Design an API to serve data
Write API documentation using Swagger and Swashbuckle
Consume an API using typical web client-side frameworks
Handle requests and routes using controllers and Minimal API
Release and deploy your Web API in production on cloud-based hosting services such as MS Azure

Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core is a practical beginner's guide to creating your first web APIs using ASP.NET Core. In it, you'll develop an API that feeds web-based services, including websites and mobile apps, for a board games application. The book is cleverly structured to mirror a real-world development project, with each chapter introducing a new feature request. You'll build your API with an ecosystem of ASP.NET Core tools that help simplify everything from setting up your data model to generating documentation. About the Technology Web APIs are the front door to an application, providing controlled access to its data and features. ASP.NET Core, Microsoft's web framework, simplifies and accelerates API creation with powerful, developer-friendly features, including an innovative "no compile" coding experience. It is reliable, fast, free, open-source, and backed by Microsoft's legendary support. About the Book Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core teaches you how to write safe, maintainable, and performant REST APIs. It's full of best practices for modern and classic API styles, including REST and GraphQL. You'll love the groundbreaking Minimal API model that helps you build pro-quality APIs with just a few lines of code. Each chapter contains realistic user stories, backlog items, and development tasks. What's Inside

Create an ASP.NET Core project from scratch
Set up a data model with Entity Framework Core
Create backend controllers
Design an API to serve data

About the Reader For developers with some experience using the .NET Framework. About the Author Valerio De Sanctis has more than 20 years of experience in web development and project management using ASP.NET, PHP, and Java. Table of Contents PART 1 - GETTING STARTED 1 Web APIs at a glance 2 Our first web API project 3 RESTful principles and guidelines PART 2 - BASIC CONCEPTS 4 Working with data 5 CRUD operations 6 Data validation and error handling PART 3 - ADVANCED CONCEPTS 7 Application logging 8 Caching techniques 9 Authentication and authorization 10 Beyond REST PART 4 - TOWARD PRODUCTION 11 API documentation 12 Release and deployment

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Intro
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Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core
Copyright
contents
front matter
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
Who should read this book
How this book is organized: A road map
About the code
liveBook discussion forum
about the author
about the cover illustration
Part 1 Getting started
1 Web APIs at a glance
1.1 Web APIs
1.1.1 Overview
1.1.2 Real-world example
1.1.3 Types of web APIs
1.1.4 Architectures and message protocols
1.2 ASP.NET Core
1.2.1 Architecture
1.2.2 Program.cs
1.2.3 Controllers
1.2.4 Minimal APIs
1.2.5 Task-based asynchronous pattern
Summary
2 Our first web API project
2.1 System requirements
2.1.1 .NET SDK
2.1.2 Integrated development environment
2.2 Installing Visual Studio
2.3 Creating the web API project
2.4 MyBGList project overview
2.4.1 Reviewing launchSettings.json
2.4.2 Configuring the appsettings.json
2.4.3 Playing with the Program.cs file
2.4.4 Inspecting the WeatherForecastController
2.4.5 Adding the BoardGameController
2.5 Exercises
2.5.1 launchSettings.json
2.5.2 appsettings.json
2.5.3 Program.cs
2.5.4 BoardGame.cs
2.5.5 BoardGameControllers.cs
Summary
3 RESTful principles and guidelines
3.1 REST guiding constraints
3.1.1 Client-server approach
3.1.2 Statelessness
3.1.3 Cacheability
3.1.4 Layered system
3.1.5 Code on demand
3.1.6 Uniform interface
3.2 API documentation
3.2.1 Introducing OpenAPI
3.2.2 ASP.NET Core components
3.3 API versioning
3.3.1 Understanding versioning
3.3.2 Should we really use versions?
3.3.3 Implementing versioning
3.4 Exercises
3.4.1 CORS
3.4.2 Client-side caching
3.4.3 COD
3.4.4 API documentation and versioning
Summary
Part 2 Basic concepts
4 Working with data
4.1 Choosing a database
4.1.1 Comparing SQL and NoSQL
4.1.2 Making a choice
4.2 Creating the database
4.2.1 Obtaining the CSV file
4.2.2 Installing SQL Server
4.2.3 Installing SSMS or ADS
4.2.4 Adding a new database
4.3 EF Core
4.3.1 Reasons to use an ORM
4.3.2 Setting up EF Core
4.3.3 Creating the DbContext
4.3.4 Setting up the DbContext
4.3.5 Creating the database structure
4.4 Exercises
4.4.1 Additional fields
4.4.2 One-to-many relationship
4.4.3 Many-to-many relationship
4.4.4 Creating a new migration
4.4.5 Applying the new migration
4.4.6 Reverting to a previous migration
Summary
5 CRUD operations
5.1 Introducing LINQ
5.1.1 Query syntax vs. method syntax
5.1.2 Lambda expressions
5.1.3 The IQueryable&T& interface
5.2 Injecting the DbContext
5.2.1 The sync and async methods
5.2.2 Testing the ApplicationDbContext
5.3 Seeding the database
5.3.1 Setting up the CSV file
5.3.2 Installing the CsvHelper package
5.3.3 Creating the BggRecord class
5.3.4 Adding the SeedController
5.3.5 Reading the CSV file
5.3.6 Executing the SeedController
5.4 Reading data
5.4.1 Paging
5.4.2 Sorting
5.4.3 Filtering
5.5 Updating and deleting data
5.5.1 Updating a BoardGame
5.5.2 Deleting a BoardGame
5.6 Exercises
5.6.1 Create
5.6.2 Read
5.6.3 Update
5.6.4 Delete
Summary
6 Data validation and error handling
6.1 Data validation
6.1.1 Model binding
6.1.2 Data validation attributes
6.1.3 A nontrivial validation example
6.1.4 Data validation and OpenAPI
6.1.5 Binding complex types
6.2 Error handling
6.2.1 The ModelState object
6.2.2 Custom error messages
6.2.3 Manual model validation
6.2.4 Exception handling
6.3 Exercises
6.3.1 Built-in validators
6.3.2 Custom validators
6.3.3 IValidatableObject
6.3.4 ModelState validation
6.3.5 Exception handling
Summary
Part 3 Advanced concepts
7 Application logging
7.1 Application logging overview
7.1.1 From boats to computers
7.1.2 Why do we need logs?
7.2 ASP.NET logging
7.2.1 A quick logging test
7.2.2 Log levels
7.2.3 Logging configuration
7.2.4 Logging providers
7.2.5 Event IDs and templates
7.2.6 Exception logging
7.3 Unstructured vs. structured logging
7.3.1 Unstructured logging pros and cons
7.3.2 Structured logging advantages
7.3.3 Application Insights logging provider
7.4 Third-party logging providers
7.4.1 Serilog overview
7.4.2 Installing Serilog
7.4.3 Configuring Serilog
7.4.4 Testing Serilog
7.4.5 Improving the logging behavior
7.5 Exercises
7.5.1 JSON console logging
7.5.2 Logging provider configuration
7.5.3 Exception logging's new property
7.5.4 New Serilog enricher
7.5.5 New Serilog sink
Summary
8 Caching techniques
8.1 Caching overview
8.2 HTTP response caching
8.2.1 Setting the cache-control header manually
8.2.2 Adding a default caching directive
8.2.3 Defining cache profiles
8.2.4 Server-side response caching
8.2.5 Response caching vs. client reload
8.3 In-memory caching
8.3.1 Setting up the in-memory cache
8.3.2 Injecting the IMemoryCache interface
8.3.3 Using the in-memory cache
8.4 Distributed caching
8.4.1 Distributed cache providers overview
8.4.2 SQL Server
8.4.3 Redis
8.5 Exercises
8.5.1 HTTP response caching
8.5.2 Cache profiles
8.5.3 Server-side response caching
8.5.4 In-memory caching
8.5.5 Distributed caching
Summary
9 Authentication and authorization
9.1 Basic concepts
9.1.1 Authentication
9.1.2 Authorization
9.2 ASP.NET Core Identity
9.2.1 Installing the NuGet packages
9.2.2 Creating the user entity
9.2.3 Updating the ApplicationDbContext
9.2.4 Adding and applying a new migration
9.2.5 Setting up the services and middleware
9.2.6 Implementing the AccountController
9.3 Authorization settings
9.3.1 Adding the authorization HTTP header
9.3.2 Setting up the [authorize] attribute
9.3.3 Testing the authorization flow
9.4 Role-based access control
9.4.1 Registering new users
9.4.2 Creating the new roles
9.4.3 Assigning users to roles
9.4.4 Adding role-based claims to JWT
9.4.5 Setting up role-based auth rules
9.4.6 Testing the RBAC flow
9.4.7 Using alternative authorization methods
9.5 Exercises
9.5.1 Adding a new role
9.5.2 Creating a new user
9.5.3 Assigning a user to roles
9.5.4 Implementing a test endpoint
9.5.5 Testing the RBAC flow
Summary
10 Beyond REST
10.1 REST drawbacks
10.1.1 Overfetching
10.1.2 Underfetching
10.2 GraphQL
10.2.1 GraphQL advantages
10.2.2 GraphQL drawbacks
10.2.3 Implementing GraphQL
10.2.4 Working with GraphQL
10.3 Google Remote Procedure Call
10.3.1 gRPC pros
10.3.2 gRPC cons
10.3.3 Installing the NuGet packages
10.3.4 Implementing the gRPC Server
10.3.5 Implementing the gRPC client
10.3.6 Adding Authorization support
10.4 Other REST alternatives
10.4.1 Newline Delimited JSON (NDJSON)
10.4.2 Falcor
10.4.3 Thrift
10.5 Exercises
10.5.1 Write a new GraphQL query
10.5.2 Fetch GraphQL data for a mutation
10.5.3 Implement new gRPC server features
10.5.4 Add new gRPC client wrappers
10.5.5 Test the new gRPC features
Summary
Part 4 Toward production
11 API documentation
11.1 Web API potential audience
11.1.1 Prospectors
11.1.2 Contractors
11.1.3 Builders
11.2 API documentation best practices
11.2.1 Adopt an automated description tool
11.2.2 Describe endpoints and input parameters
11.2.3 Add XML documentation support
11.2.4 Work with Swashbuckle annotations
11.2.5 Describe responses
11.2.6 Add request and response samples
11.2.7 Group endpoints into sections
11.2.8 Exclude reserved endpoints
11.3 Filter-based Swagger customization
11.3.1 Emphasizing the authorization requirements
11.3.2 Changing the application title
11.3.3 Adding a warning text for passwords
11.3.4 Adding custom key/value pairs
11.4 Exercises
11.4.1 Use XML documentation
11.4.2 Use Swashbuckle annotations
11.4.3 Exclude some endpoints
11.4.4 Add a custom filter
11.4.5 Add custom key/value pairs
Summary
12 Release and deployment
12.1 Prepublishing tasks
12.1.1 Considering security
12.1.2 Choosing a domain name
12.1.3 Setting up a CDN
12.1.4 Fine-tuning our APP
12.1.5 Understanding the .NET publishing modes
12.2 Creating a Windows VM server
12.2.1 Accessing Azure
12.2.2 Creating and setting up the Windows VM
12.2.3 Working with the VM public IP address
12.2.4 Creating an SSL/TLS origin certificate
12.2.5 Setting Cloudflare Encryption Mode to Full
12.3 Configuring the Windows VM server
12.3.1 Installing IIS
12.3.2 Installing the ASP.NET Core hosting bundle
12.3.3 Installing the Web Deploy component
12.3.4 Opening the 8172 TCP port
12.3.5 Configuring IIS
12.3.6 Creating the production database
12.3.7 Creating the appsettings.Production.json file
12.4 Publishing and deploying
12.4.1 Introducing Visual Studio publish profiles
12.4.2 Creating an Azure VM publish profile
12.4.3 Configuring the publish profile
12.4.4 Publishing, deployment, and testing
12.4.5 Final thoughts
Summary
appendix A.
A.1 Installing SQL Server
A.2 Installing Internet Information Services
A.3 Installing the IIS Management Service
A.4 Installing the ASP.NET Core Windows hosting bundle
A.5 Installing Web Deploy
A.6 Adding an inbound port rule in Azure
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