Accessing Request, Response, Service and Db Context, etc. in ServiceStack

Question

In my previous project, I use a framework (Agatha RRSL) similar to ServiceStack, in that everything is made of Request, Response and Handler. It also has Interceptors that can attach to handler and you can inject other interfaces to the handler as well. I can use this to open a transaction BeforeHandling, access to both request and response in AfterHandling, create audit, save to database and close transaction if needed.

I try to experiment similar with SerivceStack. But seems with Filters, I can't grab request and response together?

With custom ServiceRunner. When I try to debug OnAfterExecute(...), I can see the name of my request dto in IRequestContext {ServiceStack.ServiceHost.HttpRequestContext}. But just the name, I couldn't figure out how to retrieve the actual request object to work with the response object.

Another thing I haven't figure out is if it's possible to inject the auto wired service interface into it, like a db context or audit service. Maybe this one is too far ahead in the pipeline?

The final thing is, it seems I can only register one custom service runner? With Interceptor, I can drop a bunch of them, and they will wrap around each other.

Any thoughts? Thanks

Answer 1

The RequestContext also contains the HttpRequest and HttpResponse which you can get access with:

var httpReq = RequestContext.Get<IHttpRequest>();
var httpRes = RequestContext.Get<IHttpResponse>();

See the docs on Accessing HTTP Specific features for more info.