Web API Syllabus

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                                                  Introduction to Web APIs

§  Understanding Web APIs and their role in modern applications

§  Types of web APIs: RESTful, SOAP, GraphQL

§  Benefits of RESTful Web APIs

§  Overview of HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

  Building RESTful Services

§  Creating a new ASP.NET Core Web API project

§  Understanding Controllers and Actions

§  Routing and attribute routing

§  Handling HTTP requests and responses

§  Returning different types of data (JSON, XML)

§  Content negotiation

   Working with Models and Data

§  Defining data models using Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs)

§  Validating input data with Data Annotations

§  Working with complex types and collections

§  Using DTOs (Data Transfer Objects)

§  Integrating Entity Framework Core for data access

   Handling Requests and Responses

§  Model binding and parameter binding

§  Customizing response formats and status codes

§  Handling errors and exceptions

§  Implementing global exception handling

§  Content negotiation and media types

   Routing and Versioning

§  Configuring route templates and route parameters

§  Attribute routing and route constraints

§  Versioning Web APIs (URL versioning, header versioning, query string versioning)

§  Handling versioning through URL path and headers

   Authentication and Authorization

§  Implementing authentication mechanisms (JWT, OAuth, Basic Authentication)

§  Configuring authentication middleware

§  Securing Web APIs with authorization policies

§  Role-based and claim-based authorization

§  Implementing custom authorization handlers

   Testing and Documentation

§  Unit testing Web API controllers and actions

§  Integration testing with test servers

§  Using testing frameworks (xUnit, NUnit, MSTest)

§  Generating API documentation (Swagger/OpenAPI)

§  Documenting endpoints, parameters, and response types