Net 5 has shipped with a slew of nice quality of life improvements, especially in the web domain, so big thumbs up there 👍 Records The first of these are records. These little beauties remove a lot of the tedium around building classes for your API requests to serialize data into. They are dead simple,… Continue reading Net 5 Quality of life improvements
Category: Web API
Health checks in .netCore web APIs
Previously I have been writing health check controllers by hand. Now .netCore has a simple way of managing service health checks via middleware. You can test everything is operational all the way down to the database. You can even write your own custom checks in a few lines. A simple service operational health check can… Continue reading Health checks in .netCore web APIs
Exception handling in Web API 2
REST Web APIs are becoming more and more popular and have seen a large uptake recently. One of the nicer features that is available in the .NET web API 2 toolkit is it’s inbuilt exception handling. This allows you to maintain separation on concerns and stops controllers becoming bloated beasts of burden, or logging. A… Continue reading Exception handling in Web API 2