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Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8

You're reading from  Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610954
Pages 804 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Xiaodi Yan Xiaodi Yan
Profile icon Xiaodi Yan

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Web APIs 2. Chapter 2: Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Web APIs 3. Chapter 3: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 1) 4. Chapter 4: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 2) 5. Chapter 5: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 1: Entity Framework Core Fundamentals) 6. Chapter 6: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Entity Relationships) 7. Chapter 7: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 3: Tips) 8. Chapter 8: Security and Identity in ASP.NET Core 9. Chapter 9: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 1 – Unit Testing) 10. Chapter 10: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Integration Testing) 11. Chapter 11: Getting Started with gRPC 12. Chapter 12: Getting Started with GraphQL 13. Chapter 13: Getting Started with SignalR 14. Chapter 14: CI/CD for ASP.NET Core Using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions 15. Chapter 15: ASP.NET Core Web API Common Practices 16. Chapter 16: Error Handling, Monitoring, and Observability 17. Chapter 17: Cloud-Native Patterns 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Retrieving related objects using resolvers

In the previous section, we defined a Teacher type and a Department type. The Teacher type has a Department property of the Department type. When querying the Teacher object, we may also want to retrieve the Department object. How can we do that?

You may think that we can use the Include() method to retrieve the Department object, as follows:

public async Task<List<Teacher>> GetTeachers([Service] AppDbContext context) =>    await context.Teachers.Include(x => x.Department).ToListAsync();

Then, you can query the Department object as follows:

query{  teachers{
    id
    firstName
    lastName
    department{
      id
      name
      description
    }
  }
}

It does work and you will...

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