ServiceStack 4 Cookbook

Over 70 recipes to create web services, build message-based apps, and work with object-relational mapping

About This Book

• Create fast, testable, maintainable web APIs using the fully-featured framework in .NET
• Integrate ServiceStack to add speed and simplicity to your web applications
• Step-by-step recipes that focus on solving real-world problems using ServiceStack

Who This Book Is For

If you are a .NET developer who is looking for a simpler way to build services, this is the book for you. It will show you how to write fast, maintainable APIs that are a pleasure to use and maintain starting from the database to the client and everything in-between.

In Detail

Building web services is a complex task as every language and framework has its own architecture, which is not easy to analyze. ServiceStack makes it easy to create web services and build applications.

This book covers a wide range of topics from simple development and initial setup using the ServiceStack framework to more advanced concepts such as integration with other popular .NET frameworks. It will show you how to build your services and will also enable you to ensure your web API’s quality with step-by-step recipes that show you powerful unit testing and integration testing patterns. You will also learn how to access your SQL database with speed and simplicity using ServiceStack’s object-relational mapping framework, OrmLite.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Configuration and Routing
Chapter 2: Services and Data Transfer Objects
Chapter 3: Testing and Logging
Chapter 4: Object Relational Mapping (OrmLite)
Chapter 5: HTML and Form Data
Chapter 6: Filters and Validators
Chapter 7: Security and Authentication
Chapter 8: Working with Redis
Chapter 9: Integrating with Other Technologies
Appendix A: Getting Started
Appendix B: Testing Locally