Explore the principles of REST API design while learning how to build secure RESTful APIs in ASP.NET.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Introduction to RESTful APIs in .NET
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- REST level set
- Creating the API project
- Creating the database entities
- Creating and seeding the database
- Defining the resources
- Mapping resources and entities
- Setting up the resource controller
- Set up the HTTP test file
- Defining URI templates
- Implement resource collection GET
- Implement resource GET
- Implement resource POST
- Implement resource PUT
- Implement resource PATCH
- Implement resource DELETE
- Review additional resource operations
- HATEOAS and the API root
- Create a link base class
- Update resource with link support
- Validate linking support
- Industry linking formats
- Authentication options
- Securing the data in transit and at rest
- Securing APIs with API key
- Checking for API keys
- Securing APIs with a token
- Enabling ASP.NET Identity for APIs
- Enforcing and validating token identity
- Testing identity APIs
- Using proxies for authentication
- Using OAuth providers for tokens
- Defining security policies
- Creating a security policy for write operations
- Applying the security policy
- Next steps
Taught by
Matt Milner
