Skip to Main Content
Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET
book

Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

by Glenn Block, Pablo Cibraro, Pedro Felix, Howard Dierking, Darrel Miller
March 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
538 pages
13h 19m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

Chapter 10. The HTTP Programming Model

The messages, the whole messages, and nothing but the messages.

This chapter presents the new .NET Framework HTTP programming model, which is at the core of both ASP.NET Web API and the new client-side HTTP support, specifically the HttpClient class. This model was introduced with .NET 4.5 but is also available for .NET 4.0 via NuGet packages. It defines a new assembly—System.Net.Http.dll—with typed programming abstractions for the main HTTP concepts (namely, request and response messages, headers, and body content).

This model is complemented by the System.Net.Http.Formatting.dll assembly, which introduces the media type formatter concept, described in Chapter 13, as well as some utility extension methods and custom HTTP content types. This assembly is available via the “Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries” NuGet package, and its source code is part of the ASP.NET project. Despite its name, this package is usable on both the client and server sides. In this chapter we will be describing features from both assemblies, without making any distinction between them.

The .NET Framework already contains more than one programming model for dealing with HTTP concepts. On the client side, the System.Net.HttpWebRequest class can be used to initiate HTTP requests and process the associated responses. On the server side, the System.Web.HttpContext and related classes (e.g., HttpRequest and HttpResponse) are used in the ASP.NET context to represent ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Mastering ASP.NET Web API

Mastering ASP.NET Web API

Mithun Pattankar, Malendra Hurbuns
Enterprise Application Development with C# 9 and .NET 5

Enterprise Application Development with C# 9 and .NET 5

Ravindra Akella, Rishabh Verma, Arun Kumar Tamirisa, Suneel Kumar Kunani, Bhupesh Guptha Muthiyalu

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781449337919Errata Page