OAAB-Book / OrleansNet7UrlShortener

.NET 7 Orleans Url Shortener example project

OrleansNet7UrlShortener

Microsoft Orleans example project on Microsoft Learn course: Build your first Orleans app with ASP.NET Core 7.0 demonstrates Smart Cache Pattern

Add some other error prevention, add Orleans Dashboard and successful deploy to Azure WebApp.

To get a deployable Azure App Service Windows/Linux Environment, you need to install Azure CLI and follow instructions here.

You can use dotnet-httpie tool to test the UrlShortener API:

1. Inside this project folder, type dotnet tool restore to install/restore the dotnet-httpie tool.
2. Invoke following command to create a shorten URL entry:

   dotnet http "[the_deployed_root_url]/shorten/[your_url]"

   replace the [the_deployed_root_url] with your deployed Azure service root url, and the [your_url] is the web page url address you want to shorten, like the following running example screenshot, we shorten the www.github.com/dotnet/orleans url:
   
   Remember to keep the Last 8 Hexadecimal characters of the response, that is the shorten Url code that we will use it in the next step.
3. Invoke following command once you have create a shorten Url code in previous step:

   dotnet http "[the_deployed_root_url]/go/[shorten_url_code]"

   replace the [the_deployed_root_url] with your deployed Azure service root url, the [shorten_url_code] is the shorten Url code you get in the previous step, it will has the HTTP 302 response like following screenshot:
   
   Actually you can use that URL directly in your Internet Browser, it will redirect to Microsoft Orleans' GitHub home page(www.github.com/dotnet/orleans).