Documenting and testing web services
You can easily test a web service by making HTTP GET requests using a browser. To test other HTTP methods, we need a more advanced tool.
Testing GET requests using a browser
You will use Chrome to test the three implementations of a GET request—for all customers, for customers in a specified country, and for a single customer using their unique customer ID:
- Start the
Northwind.WebApiweb service project using thehttpslaunch profile. - Start Chrome, navigate to
https://localhost:5151/api/customers, and note the JSON document returned, containing all 91 customers in the Northwind database (unsorted), as shown in Figure 14.2:
Figure 14.2: Customers from the Northwind database as a JSON document
- Navigate to
https://localhost:5151/api/customers?country=Germanyand note the JSON document returned, containing only the customers in Germany.If you get an empty array returned, then make...
