Configuring the Customer Repository and Web API Controller

Now we will configure the repository to be called from within a Web API controller.

Defining a Web API controller for working with customer

We will register a scoped dependency service implementation for the repository when the web service starts up and then use constructor parameter injection to get it in a new Web API controller for working with customers. To show an example of differentiating between MVC and Web API controllers using routes, we will use the common /api URL prefix convention for the customer’s controller:

Step 1: In Program.cs, import the namespace for working with our customer’s repository, as shown in the following code: