Building Simple Web API Service Adapters in .NET
No doubt that the introduction of REST API revolutionized the technology landscape in a short span of time. It triggered the metamorphosis in the information exchange systems, especially the transition from Web Services to Web APIs in the software development. In the .NET world, WCF still got its place considering the support for multiple transport protocols, encodings, transactions, message security and exchange patterns. But Web API is an open source light-weight HTTP only framework which supports wide variety of media types with a broad range of clients including browsers, mobiles, tablets, IoT devices etc. But for those early migrators of Web APIs, a major hindrance was the extra hardship on parsing and reading the xml or json response manually. No need to ask the component creators how much they might have missed the Web API equivalent of WSDL proxy creation in .NET projects. Life was so easier with that ‘Add Web Reference’ proxy creation tool within the Visual Studio IDE...