asp.net-web-api

Hourly, Daily, Monthly Helper+Model methods

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You can create daily,monthly and yearly data by using the same logic. You just have to replace Hour with Day,Month or Year. List<dynamic> dailyData = new List<dynamic>(); DateTime dayIterator = StartDate.Value; while (dayIterator.Hour <= ddvm.CurrentDay) { if (ddvm.DailyPaymentTotal != null && ddvm.DailyPaymentTotal.Count() > 0 ) { DailyPaymentTotalModel day = ddvm.DailyPaymentTotal.FirstOrDefault(hpt => hpt.DateTimeStamp == dayIterator); if … Read more

Why can’t we add a Web API as a “service reference” in Visual Studio the same way we can with WCF or ASMX?

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Do you mean a Rest Web Service? With Rest, there is no service definition page, like with WCF or ASMX. Usually people want to use a Rest API with JSON.. however.. if you are just looking for a JSON output, and you want your clients to quickly be able to connect to your service, you … Read more

How to auto log every request in .NET Core WebAPI?

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ActionFilter will work until you need to log only requests processed by MVC middleware (as controller actions). If you need logging for all incoming requests, then you need to use a middleware approach. Good visual explanation: Note that middleware order is important, and if your logging should be done at the start of pipeline execution, … Read more

Why does adding a dependency in my Web API (ASP.NET v5) project not work fully?

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When you build, check out the “Project” column – it notes that the build that is failing is “ASP.NET Core 5.0” (not “ASP.NET 5.0”). In the upper left dropdown of the code editor, you can choose different views – if you select the “ASP.NET Core 5.0” one, you’ll see that the NodaTime namespace is undefined. … Read more

Which HTTP status code to return when the DELETE operation is not allowed for particular reason

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I would go with 409: Conflict, because what you have is a violation of resource state. 405: Method Not Allowed would also work. If you’d want to use a 405, you’d have to send an Allow header to indicate the supported methods, and the supported methods would vary depeding on the resource’s state. In my … Read more

Calling external HTTP service using HttpClient from a Web API Action

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Aha, I needed to do the following (return a Task rather then void): // GET api/values public async Task<IEnumerable<string>> Get() { var result = await GetExternalResponse(); return new string[] { result, “value2” }; } private async Task<string> GetExternalResponse() { var client = new HttpClient(); HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(_address); response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode(); var result = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(); … Read more

how to post arbitrary json object to webapi

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You can have your post method that takes in a HttpRequestMessage to by pass the model binding logic and you can read the content of the request directly: public HttpResponseMessage Post(HttpRequestMessage req) { var data = req.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result; // using .Result here for simplicity… … } By the way, the reason why the action that takes … Read more