Create and consume RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way
January 5, 2020Jan 5, 202001/5/20Sometimes requiring to build an entire ASP.NET Core application just for the purpose of exposing a RESTFul API endpoint to give your API consumers the ability to query, filter and order the data could be a bit of an overhead, especially if you are not planning on adding in any additional business logic between your data and it’s consumers.
December 30, 2019Dec 30, 201912/30/19The release of ASP.NET Core OData v7.3 brings a ton of improvements to $select functionality. In this article, I’d like to introduce some of the new features of $select and its usages in combination with other query options like $filter, $top,
December 21, 2019Dec 21, 201912/21/19A lot of developers have asked me recently about OData compatibility with ASP.NET Core 3.0 and again with .NET Core 3.1 after it’s very recent release.
This demand became more and more critical with the recent announcement from the .NET team around .NET Core 2.2 reaching the end of its life on Dec 23rd of this year.
October 25, 2019Oct 25, 201910/25/19OData as an API technology comes in with so many options that gives API consumers the power to shape, filter, order and navigate through the data with very few lines of code.
In my previous articles I talked in details about how to enable OData on your existing ASP.NET Core API using the EDM model,
August 12, 2019Aug 12, 201908/12/19Background
OData supports three metadata levels for the JSON format, namely –
No Metadata
Minimal Metadata
Full Metadata
No Metadata as the name suggests does not include control information other than nextLink and count. Minimal metadata responses usually include context, etag,
August 7, 2019Aug 7, 201908/7/19Loading large data can be slow. Services often rely on pagination to load the data incrementally to improve the response times and the user experience. Paging can be server-driven or client-driven:
Client-driven paging
In client-driven paging, the client decides how many records it wants to load and asks the server for that many records.
August 4, 2019Aug 4, 201908/4/19In the first article of this series, we talked about integrating Cosmos DB with ASP.NET Core application powered by OData using a pre-built solution that was using Cosmos Client to run full CRUD operations.
But that’s not the only way we can work with Cosmos DB from ASP.NET Core –
July 27, 2019Jul 27, 201907/27/19We talked in previous articles about the pluggability of OData with any storage technology regardless of its schema, whether it’s a SQL-based storage, NoSQL, In-Memory or simply a file on a hard-drive.
This power of OData enables developers to work with powerful,
May 19, 2019May 19, 201905/19/19Summary
We talked in a previous article about enabling OData in your existing ASP.NET Core API using EDM.
One of the biggest advantages of following that method is to be able to take advantage of functionality such as count to enable an on-demand function in almost every web application such as navigation.
May 19, 2019May 19, 201905/19/19Summary
In a previous article, I talked about how you can leverage the power of OData with your existing ASP.NET Core API to bring in more features to your API consumers.
But there are different ways you could enable OData on your existing API that are just as simple but offers more powerful features than overriding your existing routes and enabling dependency injection.
