Exam Ref 70-487: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services

Objective 4.2: Implement a Web API

The previous objective discussed the design aspects of creating a Web API. The next step in the logical progression is to cover the implementation of a Web API to provide a richer experience.

This objective covers how to:

• Accept data in JSON format

• Using content negotiation to deliver different data formats to clients

• Define actions and parameters to handle data binding

• Use HttpMessageHandler to process client requests and server responses

• Implement dependency injection

• Implement action filters and exception filters

• Implement asynchronous and synchronous actions

• Implement streaming actions

Accepting data in JSON format

In the last objective, you created a basic Web API for an AccountService and verified that the methods ...