Adding healthchecks to your APIs is generally a good idea as it can provide some useful information about the status of your services. There’s a lot of good guides about how to do this including the offical Microsoft documentation but there’s fewer guides on how to set up your own Read more…
There’s a few APIs available which allow you to provide an IP address and to retrieve details back about it including it’s aproximate location. I was previously using ipstack for this but their free tier is pretty poor as it only provides 100 calls a month so I moved over Read more…
I’ve started to learning about Docker and as part of that process I’ve initially been trying to just deploy a simple test API to a locally running Docker container. In order to get a basic proof-of-concept site up and running I first created a new ASP .NET Core Web API Read more…
OData is an open protocol for enabling interaction with a datasource in a standardised way via a RESTful API. Theoretically using OData in combination with Entity Framweork should provide a simple way of providing access to SQL (or other) data via API, this is indeed the case but setting things Read more…
Bootstrap Table is the best way I’ve found of adding additional functionality to HTML tables. One of the nice features about it is that it will load data from a URL if it’s provided in the correct JSON format which allows the data provision to be decoupled from the page Read more…
As part of a recent project I’ve had to download a gzipped file of product details from a client endpoint and to load these products into a local SQL database. Although this is easy enough to do in discrete synchronous steps as below what I really wanted to do was Read more…
While there seems to be plenty of resources and guides out there to help users create an API there seems to be much less guidance on how to create a client for accessing an API. I’m fine with calling an API using HttpClient or through a library such as RestSharp Read more…
I’ve recently started getting to grips with the API Management service in Azure which seems to be a good way of managing access to resources and to document their usage. Part of this is the Developer Portal which acts as a centralized store of knowledge for using your APIs which Read more…
There’s a pretty comprehensive set of APIs available for interacting with Azure resources but unfortunately these seem to be so new that there’s not really much documentation around on how to use them. For an example of the information that can be returned by these APIs you can use the Read more…
IdentityServer4 is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET Core 2 which can be used to manage authentication for web applications. In my case I wanted to set up OAuth 2.0 authentication using a SQL backend for an API, this isn’t too tricky when you know what you’re Read more…