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Solution: Add a health check to the sample app

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Solution: Add a health check to the sample app

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] So far, we have only worked with one API endpoint in our API. In our product controller, the big get method, which as the name suggests retrieves all of the products from the database. That's not the best way to test whether the API is alive or not. Because it hits the database. And we have an extra health check for the database anyway. And well, it takes some time and resources. However, the endpoint for a health check for an API, it needs to be efficient. It shouldn't hit the system hard. And therefore, I'm just adding a new controller for exactly that purpose. So new controller. I'm using an API controller. And actually, I used the template which scaffolds me a little bit of the infrastructure. And I just call this the alive controller. And in the alive controller, which I would like to access via slash alive. I just have a get method. But it doesn't return list of strings. It…

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