I have a Asp Net Core and while i have some controllers that represent simple API calls i also want to use FileProvider's for serving pages.
How can i redirect a request for a page to a controller (check credentials) , and serve it ? I must also branch the pipeline so that i can serve simple json's.
So far my fileprovider is served to everyone requests it.How do i use it from a controller (adding additional guard logic on the request) ?
Startup
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app) {
app.MapWhen(x => x.Request.Path.Value.Contains("pages"), x => {
PhysicalFileProvider provider = new PhysicalFileProvider([some path]);
DefaultFilesOptions options = new DefaultFilesOptions() {
DefaultFileNames = new List<string> { "index.html" },
FileProvider = provider
};
x.UseDefaultFiles(options);
x.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions {
RequestPath = "index.html",
FileProvider = provider
});
x.UseMvc();
});
app.UseMvc();
}
PageController
public class PageController:Controller {
[HttpGet]
[Route("/pages/index.html")]
public async Task<File> ServeIndexAsync() {
//logic to check if user has access
}
[HttpGet]
[Route("/pages/data.html")]
public async Task<File> ServeDataAsync()
{
}
}
Api Controller
This is a normal controller whose logic would get used whenever someone requests a non-page request:
public NormalController:Controller
{
[HttpGet]
[Route("/get-data")]
public async Task<string> GetDataAsync()
{
return "some data";
}
}
P.S I do not know what return type the PageController methods should have if they return files ?
