Self hosting Web API service (RabbitMQ callable)

Follow these steps to call a self hosted Web API service through RabbitMQ using the RestBus library.

Create a new Console application, which will serve as the service and install the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.OwinSelfHost, RestBus.RabbitMQ and RestBus.WebApi NuGet packages.

PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.OwinSelfHost
PM> Install-Package RestBus.RabbitMQ
PM> Install-Package RestBus.WebApi

Create the Web API self hosting service and add RestBus hosting code

This code example is a modification of the Use OWIN to Self-Host ASP.NET Web API tutorial

• You need an installation of RabbitMQ to run the code sample.
• Note that samba is the unique name of the service in this example.

using Microsoft.Owin.Hosting;
using Owin;
using RestBus.RabbitMQ;
using RestBus.RabbitMQ.Subscription;
using RestBus.WebApi;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.Http;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        //Initialize startup object
        var startup = new Startup();

        string baseAddress = null;
        //baseAddress = "http://localhost:9000/"; //Uncomment this line to also listen on localhost:9000

        //Start WebAPI OWIN host 
        using (WebApp.Start(url: baseAddress, startup: startup.Configuration))
        {
            //Start RestBus Subscriber/host

            var amqpUrl = "amqp://localhost:5672"; //AMQP URI for RabbitMQ server
            var serviceName = "samba"; //Uniquely identifies this service

            var msgMapper = new BasicMessageMapper(amqpUrl, serviceName);
            var subscriber = new RestBusSubscriber(msgMapper);
            using (var host = new RestBusHost(subscriber, startup.Config))
            {
                host.Start();
                Console.ReadLine();
            }
        }
    }
}

public class Startup
{
    HttpConfiguration config = new HttpConfiguration();

    public HttpConfiguration Config
    {
        get { return config; }
    }

    // This code configures Web API. The Startup class is specified as a type
    // parameter in the WebApp.Start method.
    public void Configuration(IAppBuilder appBuilder)
    {
        // Configure Web API for self-host. 
        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "DefaultApi",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
        );

        appBuilder.UseWebApi(config);
    }
}

public class ValuesController : ApiController
{
    // GET api/values 
    public IEnumerable<string> Get()
    {
        return new string[] { "value1", "value2" };
    }

    // GET api/values/5 
    public string Get(int id)
    {
        return "value";
    }

    // POST api/values 
    public void Post([FromBody]string value)
    {
    }

    // PUT api/values/5 
    public void Put(int id, [FromBody]string value)
    {
    }

    // DELETE api/values/5 
    public void Delete(int id)
    {
    }
}

A working example of a self hosted Web API service is in the Examples project.

Make a request to the service

See Calling a Service EndPoint