How to get HttpRequestBase from IOwinContext
I started using Owin host itself for my API and now I am trying to fix some tests that started to fail because Owin does not support HttpContext.Current
Now I am stuck in getting HttpRequestBase
from IOwinContext
. Here is my old code that I used before Owin:
public static HttpRequestBase GetRequestBase(this HttpRequestMessage request)
{
return ((HttpContextWrapper)request.Properties["MS_HttpContext"]).Request;
}
And here's my attempt based on this answer :
public static HttpRequestBase GetRequestBase(this HttpRequestMessage request)
{
var context = request.GetOwinContext();
HttpContextBase httpContext = context.Get<HttpContextBase>(typeof(HttpContextBase).FullName); // <---- Returns null
return httpContext.Request;
}
The problem is the variable is httpContext
returning null
and I don't know what is wrong.
Does anyone know how to get the HttpRequestBase using Owin?
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I think you should be using System.web hosting for your website, so your tests were running. Now that you started using OwinSelf hosting, the HttpContext no longer appears in the picture. This is the reason you are getting null.
It is for this reason that we have extension methods to get OwinContext from HttpContext / Requests, but no extension method to get HttpContext from OwinContext.
Sorry, you need to remove / change the above self-hosting test.
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