In this post, I showed how to modify the request body to add an additional field using middleware. It would also add a request body if not provided. However, if you send a request without request body, you would get or if the request has Content-Type in the headers but without request body, you would … [Read more…]
When you have an API where the body is not optional or nullable like this If a client sends a request to this endpoint without Content-Type and body, they would get this error And if the request has Content-Type in the headers, then this error will be returned If you want to validate whether the … [Read more…]
In this post, I’m going to modify the request body by adding an additional field to the request body using middleware. The middleware will try to read the current request body, add the additional field and then replace body with the new content. Then we need to register this middleware in the startup class. That’s … [Read more…]
We use MS Orleans framework for one of our projects recently. We host our services on AWS ECS. This creates some problems for us as Orleans silos need to be able to communicate to each other and there would be some networking issues when they try to talk to each other due to multiple docker … [Read more…]
In my current project, I have to implement a search functionality where users can provide a search term and the search term is to be matched exactly. This also means that any leading and trailing in the search term must be respected. Let’s say we have these Posts in the database And we initialise the … [Read more…]
In the previous post, I show how to reliably determine if a property is nullable for a given Type. I needed to do this because the JSON schema produced by Swagger has incorrect nullability. This is the JSON schema produced by Swagger for the Movie class in the previous post. The title should not be … [Read more…]
In my current project, I need to check, for a given Type, if any of its properties is nullable. Nullable reference types is enabled in this solution so I want the result to show the property is nullable where the ? is appended to the type name. Let’s say we have some sample classes like these I … [Read more…]
We have some shared library code where we have an interface with a method Handle and an abstract class implementing the interface like below. We have many different types of handlers implementing the abstract class, each does different thing, similarly to the following sample code All these handlers are in different project to the web … [Read more…]
In this previous post, I showed how to implement a Chrome Browser extension to talk to a native app on user local machine. Recently, we added support for Microsoft Edge browser and published to Microsoft Edge Add-ons store. We then received reports from some testers in the team that the Edge extension does not work … [Read more…]
In my current project, we have to integrate with a third party API. One of the security requirements is to use mTLS. This means we have to pass the client certificate when sending HTTP requests to the third party. Since we’re using named HttpClient, we can specify the client certificate when registering the HttpClient in … [Read more…]