15.0: API Controller

Add an API Controller

1. Stop the app

2. Right click on ElevenNote.WebApi -> Controllers and click Add -> Controller

3. Select Web Api 2 Controller - Empty

4. Name it NoteController(or whatever your controller needs to be named if this is an alternative app)

   

5. Add an [Authorize] attribute tag at the top

6. Inside the controller, add a helper method that creates a NoteService similar to our method in the ElevenNote.Web MVC project

    namespace ElevenNote.WebAPI.Controllers
    {
        [Authorize]
        public class NoteController : ApiController
        {
            private NoteService CreateNoteService()
            {
                var userId = Guid.Parse(User.Identity.GetUserId());
                var noteService = new NoteService(userId);
                return noteService;
            }
        }
    }

7. CTRL . to bring in the using statement for the NoteService project and Microsoft.Asp.Net.Identity

8. This will allow us to reuse our NoteService in the methods for the API project, much like we did in the MVC project

9. Above the service method, write a method that uses the Service:

    namespace ElevenNote.WebAPI.Controllers
    {
        [Authorize]
        public class NoteController : ApiController
        {
            public IHttpActionResult Get()
            {
                NoteService noteService = CreateNoteService();
                var notes = noteService.GetNotes();
                return Ok(notes);
            }
   
            private NoteService CreateNoteService()
            {
                var userId = Guid.Parse(User.Identity.GetUserId());

10. CTRL . to bring in the using statement and then consider doing a

Next, we'll test getting notes in Postman.