Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter’s topics with deeper research.

Exercise 14.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. Which class should you inherit from to create a controller class for an ASP.NET Core Web API service?
2. When configuring an HTTP client, how do you specify the format of data that you prefer in the response from the web service?
3. What must you do to specify which controller action method will be executed in response to an HTTP request?
4. What must you do to specify what responses should be expected when calling an action method?
5. List three methods that can be called to return responses with different status codes.
6. List four ways that you can test a web service.
7. Why should you not wrap your use of HttpClient in a using statement to dispose of it when you are finished even though...