.NET Core IHttpContextAccessor issue

Question

I have static helper class

public static class Current
{
    public static string Host
    {
        get { return "httpContextAccessor here"; }
    }
}

How I can get access to current HttpContext inside Host property?

Answer 1

You can't and you shouldn't. This beats the whole purpose of having a dependency injection system at all. Static classes (for runtime data or Service Locator) is an anti-pattern.

In ASP.NET Core you have to inject IHttpContextAccessor in classes where you need it. You can make a non-static class and do something along the lines of:

public class RequestInformation : IRequestInformation
{
    private readonly HttpContext context;

    public RequestInformation(IHttpContextAccessor contextAccessor) 
    {
        // Don't forget null checks
        this.context = contextAccessor.HttpContext;
    }

    public string Host
    {
        get { return this.context./*Do whatever you need here*/; }
    }
}

and in your class library inject it:

public class SomeClassInClassLibrary
{
    private readonly IRequestInformation requestInfo;

    public SomeClassInClassLibrary(IRequestInfomation requestInfo) 
    {
        // Don't forget null checks
        this.requestInfo = requestInfo;

        // access it
        var host = requestInfo.Host;
    }
}

Be aware that your SomeClassInClassLibrary must be resolved with either Scoped or Transient mode and it can't be Singleton, because HttpContext is only valid for the duration of the request.

Alternatively if SomeClassInClassLibrary has to be singleton, you have to inject a factory and resolve the IRequestInformation on demand (i.e. inside an action).

Last but not least, IHttpContextAccessor isn't registered by default.

IHttpContextAccessor can be used to access the HttpContext for the current thread. However, maintaining this state has non-trivial performance costs so it has been removed from the default set of services.

Developers that depend on it can add it back as needed: services.AddSingleton<IHttpContextAccessor, HttpContextAccessor>();

Source: The IHttpContextAccessor service is not registered by default