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Chapter 1: Getting Started with DelphiMVCFramework

1. What you’ll learn
2. DMVCFramework is “batteries included”
3. Installation of DelphiMVCFramework 3.2.1-carbon
4. Your first RESTful server with DelphiMVCFramework
5. Your first DMVCFramework-style “Hello World”
6. Built-in System Actions
7. What’s Next

Chapter 2: Controllers and routing

1. The Router
2. MVCPath attribute
3. Handling Parameters
4. Query-String parameters
5. URL mapped parameters
6. Multiple Paths for a Single Action
7. More about URL Mapped parameters
8. Strongly Typed Actions
9. MVCHTTPMethod attribute
10. MVCProduces attribute
11. MVCConsumes attribute
12. MVCDoc attribute
13. Action Filters
14. What’s Next

Chapter 3: Renders

1. What you’ll learn
2. The Rendering Phase
3. Rendering Data Must be Simple!
4. Rendering Objects and List of Objects
5. Customize Objects Serialization
6. Rendering TStream descendants
7. Rendering Nested Objects
8. Serializing TDataset descendants
9. Rendering Dictionaries
10. Rendering images, pdf and other binary contents
11. Rendering Exceptions
12. Rendering Custom Data Structures
13. Support HATEOAS in your APIs
14. Deserialization
15. Deserialize Simple Objects
16. Deserializing List of Object
17. Deserializing Hierarchical Structures
18. The IMVCList Interface
19. Sending Binary Contents
20. Using multipart/form-data
21. Custom Type Serializers
22. Using custom serializer
23. What’s Next

Chapter 4: Municipal Library System - The Database

1. What you’ll learn
2. The Municipal Library System
3. The Database
4. What’s Next

Chapter 5: Municipal Library System - The APIs

1. What you’ll learn
2. APIs design Overview
3. Design an API for the Books Lending System
4. The actual APIs
5. What’s next

Chapter 6: Municipal Library System - Creating APIs using Datasets

1. What you’ll learn
2. The CRUD acronym
3. Implementing the API using datasets
4. What’s Next

Chapter 7: Municipal Library System - Creating APIs with MVCActiveRecord

1. What you’ll learn
2. The ActiveRecord Design Pattern
3. ActiveRecord in MVCFramework a.k.a. MVCActiveRecord
4. What’s Next

Chapter 8: Municipal Library System - Complete APIs with MVCActiveRecord

1. What you’ll learn
2. WebModule Configuration
3. Establish a Database Connection
4. TAuthorsController
5. TControllerBase
6. Handling pagination in TCustomersController.GetCustomers
7. Terminate a lending
8. Users management with TUsersController
9. What’s Next

Chapter 9: Authentication & authorization

1. What you’ll learn
2. Authentication vs Authorization
3. The Authentication/Authorization Subsystem
4. Securing an API
5. HTTP Basic Authentication
6. JSON Web Token Authentication and Authorization
7. Accessing Logged User Information
8. What’s Next

Chapter 10: Middlewares

1. What you’ll learn
2. What’s a middleware?
3. The IMVCMiddleware Interface
4. Built-In Middleware
5. CORS Middleware
6. Compression Middleware
7. Analytics Middleware
8. Trace Middleware
9. Static Files Middleware
10. What’s Next

Chapter 11: Municipal Library System - Authentication and Authorization

1. What you’ll learn
2. How to choose an authentication schema
3. Defining a roles system
4. Create a Python client
5. What’s Next

Chapter 12: JSON-RPC: why, when and how use it

1. What you’ll learn
2. JSON-RPC Overview
3. JSON-RPC 2.0 Requests
4. JSON-RPC 2.0 Notifications
5. Response Error Object
6. JSON-RPC vs REST
7. Publishing PODOs
8. The MVCInheritable Attribute
9. Inspecting the published methods
10. Defining Hooks
11. What’s Next

Chapter 13: Document and test your REST API with the Swagger middleware

1. What you’ll learn
2. How to use
3. MVCSwagSummary attribute
4. MVCSwagAuthentication attribute
5. MVCSwagParam attribute
6. MVCSwagResponses attribute
7. MVCSwagJSONSchemaField attribute
8. MVCSwagIgnorePath attribute
9. Simple Swagger Tutorial
10. What’s Next

Chapter 14: Tips and Tricks

1. Tip #1: Redirecting users to a different URL only when are using browser
2. Tip #2: Don’t load system controllers
3. Tip #3: Remove X-Powered-By Header
4. Tip #4: Change or remove the Server Header
5. Tip #5: Testing API using Python
6. Tip #6: Storing users password
7. Tip #7: Use RQL for simple query