My group has been doing a lot of REST API consumption lately, and our favorite tool to use for that is the terrific RestSharp library. Our latest project is very large, and uses lots of different APIs, and so we needed a way to create many different client classes that could consume many different APIs but still use common features like caching and error logging. And so, I present to you, the Ultimate RestSharp Client! In this post, we'll build... Read more >
We're working on a large project which consumes a custom-build API, and one of the requirements of this project is that if the API goes down, certain sections of the website still need to be able to function. The reason for this is that our app consumes a lot of APIs and services, and occasionally a non-critical one will go down (for maintenance, bugs, whatever) and we don't want our site to crash as well, since this was a problem... Read more >
I use Dependency Injection (DI) quite a bit in my ASP.NET projects, particularly in Web API and MVC web applications. Recently, I had a need to implement a caching layer in one of my MVC apps, and such a layer would be best used if it could be injected into my clients layer (e.g. the layer that called an API and handled responses from the same). The solution I came up with seemed to be pretty simple, so... Read more >
My team regularly writes ASP.NET Web API projects which have multiple consumers, and oftentimes we also write at least one of said consumers. To accomplish this, we often invoke a project layout and architecture that doesn't seem terribly obvious to newcomers to my group. I hope to better explain myself as to why this project organization works in this post (so I can just say, "Hey, new guy, lookie here!" and point them at this post.) Sample Architecture So,... Read more >
I previously wrote a post called Custom Validation in ASP.NET Web API with FluentValidation, in which I showed how my group set up a validation framework over WebAPI using the FluentValidation NuGet package. In this post, we'll go over how to consume those responses in an ASP.NET MVC app, as well as how to take the error messages from the API response and automatically add them to the MVC ModelState. I have updated the sample project on GitHub... Read more >
