With the release of Microsoft ASP.NET Web API 2 OData, we have introduced support for batching requests. Batching is a web API feature that allows a customer to pack several API requests and send them to the web API service in one HTTP request and receive a single HTTP response with the response to all their requests. This way, the client can optimize calls to the server and improve the scalability of its service. For a more in depth look at the batch support, you can take a look at the specification . Batch in Web API In order to start using batch in Web API, the only requirement is to register a route with a batch handler. Let’s start by creating the server. For this sample we will be using the brand new OWIN host for Web API. The code below...(read more)
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