WebApi

Download full source code At first you think it’s going to be easy to download a file from Web Api, but as I discovered, it was not. In my case I wanted to load data from the database, perform some processing and return a subset of the data as a file.

I have two other posts on multiple GET methods, one for ASP.NET 5 Web Api, and another for Web Api 2. Download full source code. A few months ago I wrote a post explaining how to create a controller with multiple GET methods.

Full source code here. I wrote blog post in 2015 on using the Fluent Validation NuGet package for complex validation needs. In the post the validator checked that a create person request had at least one active primary phone and at least one active primary email.

I have two other posts on multiple GET methods, one for ASP.NET 5 Web Api, and another for Web Api 2. It seems that every version of Web API changes how it handles default routes or route prefixes or whatever the next name will be.

The Problem It’s hard to get the details of an exception from a Web Api response when calling Web Api from a C# program. (Skip to the solution if you don’t care about the background), it even handles inner exceptions!

Full source code to download. I’ve been using ninject for a few years, but every time I use it with Web Api I hit some problem and they usually stem from not including the right nuget packages, not changing the DependencyResolver or (once) forgetting how to make a binding!

I have two other posts on multiple GET methods, both for Web Api 2. the first shows how to use routes like http://…/api/values/geta. the second shows http://…/api/values/22 or http://…/api/values/AAC1FB7B-978B-4C39-A90D-271A031BFE5D.