Building and Securing RESTful APIs in ASP.NET Core Part 1

by Edward Nelson

There are plenty of non REST APIs that return JSON. Finally, just because your API supports CRUD operations like creating and deleting, doesn't make it restful. Restful APIs do use http methods, and can return JSON, and can model CRUD operations. But that's not specifically what makes an API restful. What REST is, is all about modeling your API around resources. And allowing clients to perform operations on those resources. In the context of REST, a resource is any object in your APIs design domain. Things like documents, users, orders, reservations, and tasks. In many cases, a resource will correlate exactly with a row in a table or an object in the data base. But that's not always the case.

23 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 22, 2022