Supermarket API

Simple RESTful API built with ASP.NET 5 to show how to create RESTful services using a decoupled, maintainable architecture.

Changes list

Some changes were made to the code presented at the tutorial published on Medium and freeCodeCamp, to make the API code cleaner and to add functionalities that developers may find useful.

If you want to download the original code showed on the tutorial, download the 1.0.0 tag.

• 1.4.0 [November 26, 2021]

  • Updated .NET version to .NET 5 (see #11)
  • Updated AutoMapper, Entity Framework Core, and Swashbuckle dependencies to match .NET 5.
  • Created BaseApiController class to standardize routes and to automatically apply data annotations validation by using the ApiController attribute.
  • Refactored logic to seed database data and to apply entity type configuration for application models.

• 1.3.0 [December 15, 2019]

  • Updated ASP.NET Core version to 3.1, fixed issues related to InMemoryProvider, updated Swagger (see #5);
  • Fixed paging calculation mistake, updated descriptions, updated "launchSettings.json" to open Swagger on running the application.

• 1.2.1 [August 11, 2019]

  • Changed BaseResponse to use generics as a way to simplify responses (see #3).

• 1.2.0 [July 15, 2019]

  • Changed /api/products endpoint to allow pagination (see #1).

• 1.1.0 [June 18, 2019]

  • Added Swagger documentation through Swashbuckle;
  • Added cache through native IMemoryCache;
  • Changed products listing to allow filtering by category ID, to show how to perform specific queries with EF Core;
  • Changed ModelState validation to use ApiController attribute and InvalidResponseFactory in Startup.

• 1.0.0 [February 4, 2019]

  • First version of the example API, presented in the tutorial on Medium and freeCodeCamp.

Frameworks and Libraries

• ASP.NET 5;
• Entity Framework Core (for data access);
• Entity Framework In-Memory Provider (for testing purposes);
• AutoMapper (for mapping resources and models);
• Swashbuckle (API documentation).

How to Test

First, install .NET 5. Then, open the terminal or command prompt at the API root path (/src/Supermarket.API/) and run the following commands, in sequence:

dotnet restore
dotnet run

Navigate to https://localhost:5001/api/categories to check if the API is working. If you see a HTTPS security error, just add an exception to see the results.

Navigate to https://localhost:5001/swagger to check the API documentation and to test all API endpoints.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Matt Barry 💻	hippie 💻	NoobInTraining 💻	Ma'hmmoud Kinawy 💻	Ahsan Raza 👀	dundich 🤔	thedon_chris 🐛
subhanisyed17 🐛	Eric Wilson 💬	Phạm Tuấn Phát 🤔	miki-nis 🐛

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!