I'm trying to access a request's raw input body/stream in ASP.net 5. In the past, I was able to reset the position of the input stream to 0 and read it into a memory stream but when I attempt to do this from the context the input stream is either null or throws an error (System.NotSupportedException => "Specified method is not supported.").
In the first example below I can access the raw request in a controller if I declare the controller method's parameter object type as dynamic. For various reasons, this is not a solution and I need to access the raw request body in an authentication filter anyways.
This Example Works, But Is Not a Reasonable Solution:
[HttpPost("requestme")]
public string GetRequestBody([FromBody] dynamic body)
{
return body.ToString();
}
Throws Error:
[HttpPost("requestme")]
public string GetRequestBody()
{
var m = new MemoryStream();
Request.Body.CopyTo(m);
var contentLength = m.Length;
var b = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(m.ToArray());
return b;
}
Throws Error:
[HttpPost("requestme")]
public string GetRequestBody()
{
Request.Body.Position = 0;
var input = new StreamReader(Request.Body).ReadToEnd();
return input;
}
Throws Error:
[HttpPost("requestme")]
public string GetRequestBody()
{
Request.Body.Position = 0;
var input = new MemoryStream();
Request.Body.CopyTo(input);
var inputString = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(input.ToArray());
return inputString;
}
I need to access the raw request body of every request that comes in for an API that I am building.
Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT:
Here is the code that I would like to read the request body in.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Http;
namespace API.Filters
{
public class CustomAuthorizationAttribute : Attribute, IAuthorizationFilter
{
public CustomAuthorizationAttribute()
{ }
public void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext context)
{
if (context == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("OnAuthorization AuthorizationContext context can not be null.");
else
{
if (this.AuthorizeCore(context.HttpContext) == false)
{
// Do Other Stuff To Check Auth
}
else
{
context.Result = new HttpUnauthorizedResult();
}
}
}
protected virtual bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContext httpContext)
{
var result = false;
using (System.IO.MemoryStream m = new System.IO.MemoryStream())
{
try
{
if (httpContext.Request.Body.CanSeek == true)
httpContext.Request.Body.Position = 0;
httpContext.Request.Body.CopyTo(m);
var bodyString = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(m.ToArray());
return CheckBody(bodyString); // Initial Auth Check returns true/false <-- Not Shown In Code Here on Stack Overflow
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Logger.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
}
return false;
}
}
}
This code would be accessed when a call is made to a controller method marked with the CustomAuthorization attribute like so.
[Filters.CustomAuthorizationAuthorization]
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Post([FromBody]UserModel Profile)
{
// Process Profile
}