Welcome

This repository is a practical ASP.NET Core Web API (.NET 8) solution that implements Onion Architecture

Presentation Layer:

• CompanyEmployees
• CompanyEmployees.Presentation

Infrastructure Layer:

• Repository
• LoggerService

Service Layer:

• Service
• Service.Contract

Domain Layer:

• Contract
• Entities

Features

1. HTTP methods: GET, POST, DELETE, PUT, PATCH, OPTIONS, HEAD
2. Global error handling
3. Validation attributes
4. Asynchronous code
5. Paging, Filtering, Searching, Sorting
6. Data shaping
7. Supporting HATEOAS
8. Versioning
9. Output caching
10. Rate limiting
11. Authentication & Authorization (JWT + refresh token)
12. Documenting API with Open API

How to run

Prerequisites:

• .NET 8
• SQL Server

Create the secret key

Run the following command in CMD with admin privilege to create secret key to sign/validate tokens.

setx WEB_API_SECRET "YourTopSecretKeyHasGreater256Bytes113211162023!!!!" /M

Provide your SQL Server connection string in CompanyEmployees\appsettings.json

Run the app

In the solution directory, restore all the dependencies by the .NET CLI command:

dotnet restore

Navigate to CompanyEmployees directory, initialize the sample database:

dotnet ef database update

Start the app

dotnet run

Test the APIs by these commands:

curl https://localhost:5001/api/companies/c9d4c053-49b6-410c-bc78-2d54a9991870
curl https://localhost:5001/api/companies/c9d4c053-49b6-410c-bc78-2d54a9991870/employees

Open Swagger UI using a web browser to explorer the APIs at: https://localhost:5001/swagger/index.html