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Input formatters are used to deserialize the request body to a model object (which is then passed into an action method). There are built-in input formatters for handling JSON and XML. You can add your own input formatter when you want to customize request body deserialization. There are two scenarios where a custom InputFormatter would … Read more
When you want to use Postman to send a request with content in the Body, you have to first select a content type option (none, form-data, etc…). When you select the type and add content, Postman automatically generates the Content-Type header. You can see the auto-generated Content-Type header in the Headers tab. The following table … Read more
Postman is a great tool for web development. You can send a request to any web API, look at the response details, and reuse the the request later (which saves lots of effort!). This is useful for testing your own web API, or for when you’re integrating with a third-party API and want to try … Read more
When sending a request with Postman, we can parse a value from the response and save it into a global variable or environment variable. This is useful when we need to use a value obtained from one request in other requests; for example, when we obtain an access token that needs to be included as … Read more
When you want to unit test code that uses HttpClient, you’ll want to treat HttpClient like any other dependency: pass it into the code (aka dependency injection) and then mock it out in the unit tests. There are two approaches to mocking it out: In this article I’ll show examples of these two approaches. Untested … Read more