How do you expose Web API services?

How do you expose Web API services?

Expose your web-services with a REST API

1. Step 1 – Identify your resources. The first thing to do when building a REST API is to identify which resources will be exposed by your module.
2. Step 2 – Define your endpoints and methods.
3. Step 3 – Externalize your resources.
4. Step 4 – Implement the identified endpoints.

What is the use of ApiController attribute?

The [ApiController] attribute applies inference rules for the default data sources of action parameters. These rules save you from having to identify binding sources manually by applying attributes to the action parameters.

How does Web API implement authorization?

Using the [Authorize] Attribute

1. Globally: To restrict access for every Web API controller, add the AuthorizeAttribute filter to the global filter list:
2. Controller: To restrict access for a specific controller, add the filter as an attribute to the controller:

How security is implemented in Web API?

Securing your API against the attacks outlined above should be based on: Authentication – Determining the identity of an end user. In a REST API, basic authentication can be implemented using the TLS protocol, but OAuth 2 and OpenID Connect are more secure alternatives.

Is ApiController required?

There is indeed no particular ApiController class anymore since MVC and WebAPI have been merged in ASP.NET Core. However, the Controller class of MVC brings in a bunch of features you probably won’t need when developing just a Web API, such as a views and model binding.

What is CreatedAtAction?

CreatedAtAction(String, Object) Creates a CreatedAtActionResult object that produces a Status201Created response. CreatedAtAction(String, String, Object, Object) Creates a CreatedAtActionResult object that produces a Status201Created response.

How authorization filter works in Web API?

Web API uses authorization filters to implement authorization. The Authorization filters run before the controller action. If the request is not authorized, the filter returns an error response, and the action is not invoked. Web API provides a built-in authorization filter, Authorize Attribute.

Which is an example of a WebAPI service?

A simple example As a very very basic example I will make a simple Controller that respond with some hardcoded JSON data and in my next post I will show how to instead respond with data from a custom mongo DB collection. ExampleServicesApiController

What to do if WebAPI fails to resolve dependencies?

As an aside, if you’re going to use the ChainedDependencyResolver, I recommend that you change your Autofac registration to register only your Web API Controllers, not all Controllers in the AppDomain.

How to implement a WebAPI controller in Sitecore 8?

This will just be a quick post about implementing a WebApi controller in Sitecore 8 using the ServicesApiControllerclass. Perhaps this post can help some of the teams in the ongoing Sitecore Hackathon, who knows. The ServicesApiController class

Where do I initialize the web API dependencyresolver?

You’re currently patching your Web API DependencyResolver initialization after Sitecore.Mvc.Pipelines.Loader.InitializeControllerFactory. While that is a perfectly valid place to initialize the MVC DependencyResolver, it is too early for changes to Web API’s configuration.