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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

You're reading from   Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core Developing Distributed Web Services to improve scalability with .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788291576
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaurav Aroraa Gaurav Aroraa
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Sharbani Bhattacharya Sharbani Bhattacharya
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Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Building the Initial Framework – Laying the Foundation of the Application FREE CHAPTER 3. User Registration and Administration 4. Item Catalogue, Cart, and Checkout 5. Integrating External Components and Handling 6. Testing RESTful Web Services 7. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 8. Securing RESTful Web Services 9. Scaling RESTful Services (Performance of Web Services) 10. Building a Web Client (Consuming Web Services) 11. Introduction to Microservices 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Client-based API-consumption architecture

We have discussed RESTful Services, Web APIs, as well as how to register, authenticate, and authorize a user. Moreover, we did focus a little on the consumption aspect of the service. Services are designed not only to test on Postman but actually for consumption by different types of application (desktop, web, mobile, smart watches, and IoT apps).

While most modern apps are based on MVC-based architecture, there is a certain need to consume web services inside the controllers of those apps. Basically, I need to find a way to call the services from my controller without any hassle.

For that to happen, I can't call Postman or any other third-party tool. What I need is a client or component that can interact with the RESTful Web API for me. I just need to tell that client that I need the Customer details by passing the id or some identifier...

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