Getting Started with ASP.NET WebAPI

James Bender

Microsoft Practice Manager, ICC – Columbus, Ohio

@JamesBender

REST in a Nutshell

Verb

Location +

Resource

… aka the URI

URI

• http://finance.portal.com/quote?tkr=MSFT

• http://stuff.org/articles/WCF

• http://weatherdude.com/local/43081/sevenday

Verbs…

Aka, what you want to do.

GET

POST

PUT

http://MyService/Stuff/

http://MyService/Stuff/12345

Use POST for this one

Use PUT here

DELETE

HEAD

PATCH

Plain Old XML (POX)

JavaScript ObjectNotation (JSON)

Sounds great, how do I do it?

.NET – WCF or Web API

Java – JAX-RS, RESTEasy

Ruby – Rails, Sinatra, Django

Node.js - Restify

Demo Time!

Security

Authentication

SSL/TLS

Credentials

Authorization

Impersonation

Role-based

A few words about…

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