User Management API - Back-End Development with .NET (Coursera - Microsoft)

This is a simple User Management API built using ASP.NET Core to demonstrate the use of authentication and session management in a back-end development project. This API provides the functionality to authenticate users through a login endpoint, retrieve a session key, and use it to access user-related data.

Project Overview

This project is part of the Back-End Development with .NET course on Coursera from Microsoft. The API allows users to:

1. Login using their credentials (email and password).
2. Retrieve a SessionKey after successful login.
3. Use the SessionKey to make authenticated requests to the /users endpoint and access user data.

Features

• Login Endpoint (/login): Allows users to log in with their email and password.
• Session Management: After a successful login, the API returns a session key that the user must include in subsequent requests to authenticate and retrieve user data.
• User Endpoint (/users): A protected endpoint that returns the list of users, accessible only with a valid session key.

API Endpoints

1. Login

• Endpoint: /login
• Method: POST
• Description: Logs in the user with email and password, and returns a session key.

Request

curl -X POST https://your-api-url/login \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"email": "alice@example.com", "password": "password123"}'


### Authenticated Request
After you have the **SessionKey**, you can make an authenticated request to `/users`.

```bash
curl -X GET https://your-api-url/users \
-H "SessionKey: your-session-key"