A place I'm trying out the new ASP.NET Core minimal APIs for hosting and HTTP APIs.

Code in this repo depends on the very latest bits. If you want to try it out, grab the latest .NET 6 RC.1 SDK installer.

First-class support for validation as part of the new minimal APIs will unfortunately not land in .NET 6. However it's fairly straightforward to wire up the validation features found in System.ComponentModel.Validation through the use of a helper library (like the example this repo uses), or by using an existing validation library like FluentValidation.

This project implements a simple Todos API including OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation and UI, and uses the Dapper library to perist data to a SQLite database.

There are some simple tests for this project in the tests/Todo.Dapper.Tests project.

This project implements a simple Todos API including OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation and UI, and uses using Entity Framework Core to perist data to a SQLite database.

This project contains numerous examples of ways to use and extend the new minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6 to build HTTP APIs.

While the Program.cs file in the project root is where the APIs are registered and implemented, much of the custom code is in the Properties directory. I keep it there as almost all .NET projects have a Properties directory and I wanted to avoid additional directories in the project to avoid any implication that additional special directories are required. Ultimately it's just code and be placed anywhere in the project.

The project includes examples of the following and more:

• Returning strings and objects directly from APIs
• Implenting APIs using inline anonymous lambdas, local functions, or methods
• Using the in-framework Results helper class to return common results
• Returning custom IResult objects
• Inferred parameter binding from route data, querystring, request body as JSON, DI container services, and HTTP request objects
• Parameter optionality inference from parameters nullability
• Custom parameter binding from querystring or route data values via TryParse
• Custom async parameter binding from the request via BindAsync
• An example extensible parameter binding object model IParameterBinder that enables creating binders for types you don't own
• Using MVC ModelBinder implementations via a custom binding shim
• Handling file uploads via a custom BindAsync implementation
• Handling media types other than JSON by working directly against the incoming HttpRequest and returning a custom IResult implementation
• Handling input validation using the MinimalValidation library
• Configuring error handling using UseExceptionHandler
• Mutating responses from APIs via custom middleware
• Using endpoint metadata to customize OpenAPI (Swagger) API descriptions
• An experimental middleware for handling cross-site request forgery concerns using the framework's included IAntiforgery functionality