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Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0

You're reading from   Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0 Turn the right screws in ASP.NET Core to get the most out of the framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077866
Length 160 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jürgen Gutsch Jürgen Gutsch
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Customizing Logging 2. Chapter 2: Customizing App Configuration FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Customizing Dependency Injection 4. Chapter 4: Configuring and Customizing HTTPS with Kestrel 5. Chapter 5: Using IHostedService and BackgroundService 6. Chapter 6: Writing Custom Middleware 7. Chapter 7: Content Negotiation Using a Custom OutputFormatter 8. Chapter 8: Managing Inputs with Custom ModelBinders 9. Chapter 9: Creating a Custom ActionFilter 10. Chapter 10: Creating Custom TagHelpers 11. Chapter 11: Configuring WebHostBuilder 12. Chapter 12: Using Different Hosting Models 13. Chapter 13: Working with Endpoint Routing 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a more complex endpoint

In this section, we will create a more complex endpoint, step by step. Let's do this by writing a really simple health check endpoint, as you might need if you were to run your application inside a Kubernetes cluster, or just to tell others about your health status:

  1. Microsoft proposes starting with the definition of the API to add the endpoint from the developer point of view. We do the same here. This means that we will add a MapSomething method first, without an actual implementation. This will be an extension method on IEndpointRouteBuilder. We are going to call it MapMyHealthChecks:
    // the new endpoint
    endpoints.MapMyHealthChecks("/myhealth");
      
    endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
        name: "default",
        pattern: 
            "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");

    The new endpoint should be added in the same way as the prebuilt...

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