Eric lippert - Amazon Web Services

We can edit this by clicking on the ‘Select’ link
We update the Summary and Description before hitting ‘Save’, the
data gets updated in the DB
The next POST request pushes JSON Data to the Server.
Behind the Scenes
On the next load, we again do a GET request and we see an array
of JSON objects is returned, it has the newly created object in it.
Now that we’ve seen what’s happening in the UI, let’s see what’s
happening behind the scenes. To look at the HTTP Traffic, I had
kept Fiddler running and the first request in Fiddler is a GET
request which as we can see below, gets an empty JSON in return.
In each of the cases, if you see the ‘Content-Type’ header
parameter, it’s set to Content-Type: text/json because we are
requesting for the JSON data or posting JSON data. The Web API
service can serve JSON and XML, it sees a request for JSON and
uses the JSON formatter to convert the Entity or Entity List into
JSON. It’s worth noting that in our API Controller, we return
Domain entities or their lists directly. Note the GetTimeCards and
the GetTimeCard methods below.
namespace TimeKeepr.Models
{
public class TimeCardController : ApiController
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