We’ve recently implemented Redis caching in an API which took a little bit of time to figure out. Redis caching is available through the Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Distributed package and this also supports other provides such as NCache. In our case we only wanted to enable Redis caching for the stg and prd … Read more
We’re currently working on a .NET backend API project that retrieves data from a MySQL database and returns it to a frontend React app. As this is a migration project we’re working with a pre-existing MySQL database which given it’s currently supporting a live application we’re loath to make structural … Read more
We’re currently using Fluent Assertions to help make writing tests for our project a bit easier. This is a very handy library and certainly helps to make test conditions easier to specify and more readable. One issue we did have though was how to exclude specific child properties from a … Read more
If you use IHttpContextAccessor in any services then you may need to mock it for unit tests. It’s quite a complicated class but in order to mock the request URL the below code can be used.
The new datatypes of DateOnly and TimeOnly are a good addition to C# but it feels as if they were released too soon without proper integration with other features. An example of this is their integration with API controllers, when added as a datatype to an input or output DTO … Read more
As part of the current project I’m working on we’ve got a service which offloads some email send tasks to a background worker running in Hangfire. Creating the BackgroundJobClient directly in our service was throwing errors and didn’t allow us to test that it had actually been called so we … Read more
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
RestSharp has recently released a major new version with a lot of breaking changes. One of the things to change was custom authenticators which now seem to be less obvious to use. The documentation suggests creating a custom authenticator by inheriting from IAuthenticator but this doesn’t seem to work and … Read more
I’ve previously posted about how to add Azure Table Storage clients via dependency injection for which I created my own extension methods using SAS tokens as MSI authentication wasn’t available. Happily MSI authentication for Azure Table Storage is now available (though pretty poorly documented) so a guide on how to … Read more