Chapter 9. Creating a Web API for mobile and client applications using MVC
This chapter covers
- Creating a Web API controller to return JSON to clients
- Using attribute routing to customize your URLs
- Generating a response using content negotiation
- Enabling XML formatting
In the previous five chapters, you’ve worked through each layer of a traditional ASP.NET Core MVC application, using Razor views to render HTML to the browser. In this chapter, you’ll see a slightly different take on an MVC application. We’ll explore Web APIs, which serve as the backend for client-side SPAs and mobile apps.
You can apply much of what you’ve learned to Web APIs; they use the same MVC design pattern, and the concepts of routing, model binding, and validation ...
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