Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0

Chapter 7: Content Negotiation Using a Custom OutputFormatter

In this seventh chapter, we are going to learn about how to send your data to the client in different formats and types. By default, the ASP.NET Core Web API sends data as JSON, but there are some more ways to distribute data.

We'll cover the following sections:

• Introducing OutputFomatters
• Creating custom OutputFormatters

The topics of this chapter relate to the WebAPI layer of the ASP.NET Core architecture:

Figure 7.1 – ASP.NET Core architecture

Technical requirements

To follow the descriptions in this chapter, you will need to create an ASP.NET Core MVC application. Open your ...