How to integrate Web API ?
How to integrate and refer Visual Guard Assembly Reference in your WEB API application
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To integrate Visual Guard in your WEB API Application project, kindly refer How to integrate Visual Guard in your MVC application to give assembly reference and configure web.config. |
Securing Controller/Action
Using VGAuthorize attribute
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While mentioning the permission in the ‘VGAuthorize’ attribute, please take the full name of the permission (along with full path).
Example: “ReadOnly” permission exist in folder “Auditors”, hence, full name of the permission is : “/Auditors/ReadOnly” |
[VGAuthorize(Roles = "Admin")] public class ProductionController : ApiController { Product[] products = new Product[] { new Product { Id = 1, Name = "Tomato Soup", Category = "Groceries", Price = 1 }, new Product { Id = 2, Name = "Yo-yo", Category = "Toys", Price = 3.75M }, new Product { Id = 3, Name = "Hammer", Category = "Hardware", Price = 16.99M } }; [VGAuthorize(Permissions = "CanGetAllRoles", Roles = "RoleManager")] public IEnumerable<Product> GetAllProducts() { return products; } [VGAuthorize(Permissions = "ReadOnly")] [VGAuthorize(Permissions = "CanGetById")] public Product GetProductById(int id) { var product = products.FirstOrDefault((p) => p.Id == id); if (product == null) { throw new HttpResponseException(HttpStatusCode.NotFound); } return product; } }
[VB.NET] <VGAuthorize(Roles:="Admin")> _ Public Class ProductionController Inherits ApiController Private products As Product() = New Product() {New Product() With { _ .Id = 1, _ .Name = "Tomato Soup", _ .Category = "Groceries", _ .Price = 1 _ }, New Product() With { _ .Id = 2, _ .Name = "Yo-yo", _ .Category = "Toys", _ .Price = 3.75D _ }, New Product() With { _ .Id = 3, _ .Name = "Hammer", _ .Category = "Hardware", _ .Price = 16.99D _ }} <VGAuthorize(Permissions:="CanGetAllRoles", Roles:="RoleManager")> _ Public Function GetAllProducts() As IEnumerable(Of Product) Return products End Function <VGAuthorize(Permissions:="ReadOnly")> <VGAuthorize(Permissions:="CanGetById")> _ Public Function GetProductById(id As Integer) As Product Dim product = products.FirstOrDefault(Function(p) p.Id = id) If product Is Nothing Then Throw New HttpResponseException(HttpStatusCode.NotFound) End If Return product End Function End Class