Can WebApi handlers access the context? about convey

[spetz]

Do you mean that you can't access HttpContext in the lambda expression or something else is wrong?

[GooRiOn]

@VictorioBerra there's a an accessor for that purpose inside .NET Core called IHttpContextAccessor. This will allow you to access the context (it's build on top of AsyncLocal<T>) so it's different according to the async method context. However I'd recommend wrapping this in some sort of abstraction to avoid leaking the HTTP-related stuff into the handlers.

[VictorioBerra]

@GooRiOn ahhh I can just inject IHttpContextAccessor (or rather an abstraction). That makes much more sense.

I am unfamiliar with AsyncLocal<T> but I get the general concept of accessing IHttpContextAccessor in a service during a request.

@spetz thanks for the quick reply, @GooRiOn answered the question for me, I was more or less thinking that there would be an overload of HandleAsync that exposed the context. IE:

public class DeleteParcel : IRequest
{
    public Guid ParcelId { get; }

    public DeleteParcel(Guid parcelId)
    {
        ParcelId = parcelId;
    }
}

public class DeleteParcelHandler : IRequestHandler<DeleteParcel, int>
{
    public async Task HandleAsync(DeleteParcel request, HttpContext context)
    {
        // Deleted a parcel, let's return its ID.
        return ctx.Response.Created($"parcels/{request.ParcelId}");
    }
}