Section 5: Adding a HTTP GET method
Introduction:
In Section 4, we have added a controller. When Controller receives a request, the request needs to be routed. What I mean is that a HTTP request could be of various types, such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. This represents the CRUD operations.
- GET represents the READing records.
- POST represents the CREATing records.
- PUT represents the UPDATing a record.
- DELETE represents the DELETing a record.
In this section, let us see how we can Read a record using HTTP's GET method.
To add a HTTP's GET method,
- Create a method, say Get(). This method should have a Attribute [HttpGet]. This says the compiler that this method is for HTTP's GET method.
- Create a List of Movies to be returned for the controller. We have to store the data in the Database; however, let us, for now, create a static list and return it. Let us store the data in the DB later.
Please follow the steps as below:
How to test this?
To Test, we have to use Postman tool. Please google Postman and install the latest version.
After installing Postman, we have to create a workspace and create a new Get Request.
Let's see this as below:
