Actions

The web API has many actions, some of which were covered in Chapter 2, Understanding HTTP and REST, with examples. As a refresher, we will go over them again as we will want to use these actions when we create our controller. The Action attributes will be used to decorate a method.

Every action should be thought about from a consumer's point of view; for example, for Post, the client is posting something.

If we had created ShoesController, the route for this would be as follows:

    [Route("api/[controller]")] 

Post

This action is used when we want to create something. The body of the message will contain the data that needs to be saved to a data store:

    [Route("")] 
    [HttpPost]  
    public IActionResult CreateShoes([FromBody] ShoeModel model) 

The first line is the route, routes should always be declared. They give someone who is reading the code or debugging the code a better understanding of what is happening and how the flow is.

In the second line, we state the Action attribute...