Session Management in WEBAPI

Question

We all know that Webapi being a Stateless Service means sessions or state management is disabled by default. We can use Sessions but we have to enable using Sessions in Global.asax. If the Interviewer asks : Explain Session Management in WEBAPI, What else needs to be explained ? Any reference or example would be appreciated.

Jignesh Kumar · Answer

HI Vaibhav, If you want to enable session in Web API. Please find below link to adding session support to Web Api. https://www.strathweb.com/2012/11/adding-session-support-to-asp-net-web-api/

Vincent Maverick Durano · Answer

RESTful APIs are meant to be stateless that's why by default, handling Session state is not enabled but possible. Attempting to call HttpContext.Current.Session will always return null. However, there are scenarios where you would want to access user sessions from your Web API or perhaps you are using Web API to facilitate your JavaScript (SPAs) or MVC application, and you want to sync the state of Web API with the state of MVC easily, or you simply want a quick and easy way to persist state on the server side - in this case, you could add a support for Session state.

Sanwar Ranwa · Answer

Hello Vaibhav Please check these Links https://www.strathweb.com/2012/11/adding-session-support-to-asp-net-web-api/ https://www.wiliam.com.au/wiliam-blog/enabling-session-state-in-web-api https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/736ca4/getting-started-with-Asp-Net-web-api-2-day-9/