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Mastering ASP.NET Web API
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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

by Mithun Pattankar, Malendra Hurbuns
August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Exception management in a MyWallet project

Any web API project is not an application in itself. It is built so that popular frontends, either web or desktop, can consume it. It becomes essential for web APIs to handle any unexpected events (unhandled exceptions) or any business exception gracefully.

If unexpected events (unhandled or business-related) occur, then they should be logged and the appropriate response should be sent back so that clients can be made aware of it.

To achieve this, we require the following classes:

  • WebAPIError: It acts as a response object to be used by clients.
  • WebAPIException: It is a custom exception class for business or unhandled exceptions. It contains exception details, along with the status code.
  • WebAPIExceptionFilter ...
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ISBN: 9781786463951