ASP.NET Core API versioning

With API’s often changing over time you may want to plan for versioning early on. ASP.NET Core has a library that makes versioning API a bit easier. By tagging controllers and actions with version number one can run multiple versions simultaneously.

Install

Implement

In Startup.cs ConfigureServices:

If you want to keep some URL’s without versioning, or have an existing API that is already in use then you can configure default versioning by adding:

Use

Versions can be in format:

  • [Version Group.]<Major>.<Minor>[-Status]
  • <Version Group>[<Major>[.Minor]][-Status]

Examples:

  • /api/foo?api-version=1.0
  • /api/foo?api-version=2.0-Alpha
  • /api/foo?api-version=2015-05-01.3.0
  • /api/v1/foo
  • /api/v2.0-Alpha/foo
  • /api/v2015-05-01.3.0/foo

Tag your controller with [ApiVersion()]. Note that you can use the tags multiple times if a controller has multiple versions. You can also make a service version neutral by tagging it with [ApiVersionNeutral].

Since we are using api area we also add version string to [Route] between api and controller name. But this would notwork with “default version” as far as I can see.

You can map individual methods within the controller, here using the example of “Dual”:

1 thought on “ASP.NET Core API versioning”

  1. translated by Google.
    Dear, I followed the tutorial and it works locally, however, when I upload it to the server and conserve the service “version 2.0”, it returns the data of the “version 1.0”.
    I need to configure something else?

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