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October 14, 2013 16:53
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Hackily enable HttpContext in WebAPI and Autofac
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/* | |
While generally using HttpContext, and all of the related properties such as | |
Cookies and Session, in WebAPI is not the right way sometimes it needs to be | |
done, especially when migrating existing code before doing a full rewrite but | |
could happen in any legacy MVC project you want to bring WebAPI into. | |
When using Autofac there is the AutofacWebTypesModule which allows you to resolve | |
these dependencies, all of which come from resolving HttpContextBase. | |
WebAPI doesn't provide HttpContext directly but if hosted in IIS rather than | |
self host it is accessible via | |
HttpRequestMessage.Properties["MS_HttpContext"] | |
This replaces Autofac's registration for HttpContextBase with one that falls | |
back to WebAPI's HttpContext | |
*/ | |
builder.RegisterHttpRequestMessage(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration); | |
builder.Register(c => | |
HttpContext.Current != null ? | |
new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current) : | |
c.Resolve<System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessage>().Properties["MS_HttpContext"]) | |
.As<HttpContextBase>() | |
.InstancePerHttpRequest(); |
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Glad to see old hacks like this still finding a use