Welcome to CatApi.
This is a very basic example of ASP.NET Core WebAPI used in a several courses on Lublin University of Technology as a fake data source for mobile or web apps.
CatApi is bulit over a cats.json data file, a http://thecatapi.com/-based
database, with some info about some cats. Data source is loaded in a static
constructor and is of course completely not persisting any changes, but it is
all intended.
{
"Id": "3m3",
"Url": "http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m32hcqQtWW1qjc1a7o1_1280.jpg",
"SourceUrl": "http://thecatapi.com/?id=3m3",
"Name": "Hampton",
"Loves": 0,
"Hates": 0
},The data model has most importantly unique Id (alphanumeric), Name and Url (image) of a particular cat, as well as number of Loves and Hates. SourceUrl is used only as a homage to original data source.
The allowed operations are:
- GET
api/cats- to get all of cats, - GET
api/cat/<id>- to get a single cat of a given id, - PUT
api/love/<id>- to increase number of loves of a cat with a given id, - POST
api/cat/- to add a new cat. - PUT
api/hate/<id>- to increase number of hates of a cat with a given id - GET
api/image/<id>- to download image of a cat to Downloads directory.
Both "love" and "hate" operations require authorization, using HTTP Basic Authentication method, where username must start with "user" and password must end with "word".
Contributions to this project are licensed under a CC0 license. This project is strictly educational, experimental and meant to be very basic.