Last post, I showed how to add simple health check for your own system in ASP.Net Core. However, if your system integrates with a third party system, you might want to also check if their system is healthy. ASP.Net Core makes it simple to add more complex health check such as checking external system by … [Read more…]
I needed to add health check for my Web API in ASP.Net Core. It needs to have an endpoint where it can be pinged to check if my system is healthy. ASP.Net Core has an in-built support for health checks. It can be enabled in the Startup class. Run the application and navigate to the … [Read more…]
I need to copy some xsl files to output directory in a folder named XSL when building. I set the Copy to Output Directory setting to Copy if newer on those files. The xsl files get copied correctly to the output folder when I build it locally. However, when deploying and running the code to … [Read more…]
When integrating with the new third party SOAP API, my colleague managed to get it working so we deployed it to test environment. However, it didn’t work on test environment with an invalid response exception. It still worked on my colleague’s computer and a few others. Fortunately, it didn’t work on my computer when I … [Read more…]
In my current project at work, we have to call a third party API which requires, in the payload, a commencement date and a terminating date. It also requires us to send the difference between those two dates inclusively. For example, – 1 Sep 2019 to 20 Oct 2019 should be 1 month and 20 … [Read more…]
I had to unit test a method that calls a service which returns an interface type. This returned interface is then serialised into JSON string and stored into to some database. This is an example of such method This is the example of the unit test I thought serialising any mock object to JSON should … [Read more…]
There are a couple ways to verify if 2 Json strings are equivalent. Using DeepEquals on JObject There’s a static function DeepEquals on JObject which compares the values of 2 tokens and all their descendant tokens. We can parse the Json strings into JObject and then use this function to compare them. Using FluentAssertions Another … [Read more…]
In my project at work, I come across a function where I have to deserialise a Json string to an anonymous object. For Json serialisation in this project, we always use the following Json serialisation settings. I expect the result anonymous object would ignore null properties but they are included. See example below This is … [Read more…]
Recently at work, I have a requirement to merge two json strings. Basically, I want to achieve what the spread operator does in Javascript.For examples, let’s say we have a json string as below. And we want to merge the below json string The result we want to achieve is as followed After some research, … [Read more…]
I have a need to override the default namespace and change the root name when serialising object to XML string. I could add XmlType attribute and change the namespace and add XmlRoot attribute for a different root name. However, we have different clients and each requires different namespace and root name. So I need to … [Read more…]