Add Response Headers to ASP.NET Core Middleware

Question

I want to add a processing time middleware to my ASP.NET Core WebApi like this

public class ProcessingTimeMiddleware  
{
    private readonly RequestDelegate         


        

Answer 1

Using an overload of OnStarting method:

public async Task Invoke(HttpContext context)
{
    var watch = new Stopwatch();

    context.Response.OnStarting(() =>
    {
        watch.Stop();

        context
              .Response
              .Headers
              .Add("X-Processing-Time-Milliseconds",
                        new[] { watch.ElapsedMilliseconds.ToString() });

        return Task.CompletedTask;
    });

    watch.Start();

    await _next(context); 
}