Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Web API 2.2

Introduction

• The power of Web APIs
• What you should know
• Technical specifics and setup

1. Controllers and Actions

• Convention-based routing
• Parameter binding conventions
• Parameter binding attributes
• HTTP verb attributes
• Return values
• Validating models
• Using formats besides JSON

2. Routing

• Routing table
• Attribute routing
• Customizing attribute routes

3. Data Serialization and Model Binding

• Models and DTOs
• CRUD operations with Entity Framework
• Useful Json.NET settings
• Reference LoopHandling in action

4. Error Handling

• Using HttpResponseException
• Using exception filters
• Using exception loggers
• Global exception handler

5. API Documentation and Testing

• Documenting with help pages
• Documenting with Swashbuckle and Swagger
• API testing client Postman

6. Security

• Authorize attribute
• AllowAnonymous attribute
• Setting user principal
• Overview of JSON web tokens
• JWT in action

Conclusion

• Next steps