Customizing API Responses With Wrapper Classes In Minimal API
Customize API responses with a wrapper class in Minimal API, adding metadata, pagination & error messages. Example in C# shows how to use `ApiResponse` class to return structured data.
One of the challenges of using API (minimal or not) is how to customize the response format and include additional information such as metadata, pagination, error messages, etc. In this article, we will explore how to use a wrapper class to achieve this goal. What is a Wrapper Class? A wrapper class is a class that wraps another object or value and provides some additional functionality or properties. For example, we can create a wrapper class for our API response that contains the following properties: Data: The actual data returned by the API. StatusCode: The HTTP status code of t...