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Is there a way to efficiently allow a user to upload multiple content at once for e-commerce type sites?
Sellers on large sites like Amazon and Newegg need to provide names, descriptions, and images for their products to be displayed on the e-commerce sites.
These sellers could have 10000+ products to ...
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Return values for CRUD methods?
I'm writing a basic web API in Java that does what almost all others do: take input, validate it, then do CRUD operations on the DB. I've written several APIs before, and I've pretty much already ...
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Should I Aggregate Web API Errors?
The Situation
We are writing a REST API that performs validation up-front.
The code is written such that it tries to find as many errors as possible.
However, each error might correspond to a ...
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Invoking a web service in a Web API Project…in which layer to invoke?
I am using Microsoft ASP.NET Web API 2 and one of my end points has to internally invoke a legacy non-Microsoft web service (not asmx or svc) .
Which layer should I invoke this in?
I currently have ...
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What kind of user authentication do I need in for a restful web api
I am doing a restful web api with asp.net Web API 2
I do not want to use any form of cookies or basic authentication (send user/pass in cleartext thus SSL needed)
I do not use/need claims stuff.
I ...
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Is curl something that's not expected to be installed on servers
Is curl something that's not expected to be installed on servers?
I'm working for a small development shop and 99% of the problems that I'm having is regarding curl. Most of the projects that I'm ...
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Restful WebAPI VS Regular Controllers
I'm doing some R&D on what seems like a very confusing topic, I've also read quite a few of the other SO questions, but I feel my question might be unique enough to warrant me asking. We've never ...
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Web API Development and SVN [duplicate]
We are planning to develop a ASP.NET Web API project starting soon. For source control we use svn. We typically follow the pattern of the trunk being stable and doing all of our work in the ...
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Hiding query strings logically?
I feel uncomfortable when using query string parameters as:
http://xyz.com/default.aspx?carId=1129&country=uk&uniqueId=98745DVF4563VVf1259
I would rather use something that should not make ...
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How do I manage the technical debate over WCF vs. Web API?
I'm managing a team of like 15 developers now, and we are stuck at a point on choosing the technology, where the team is broken into two completely opposite teams, debating over usage of WCF vs. Web ...
