ASP.NET Core modify/substitute request body

Question

I want to do a substitution on HttpContext.Request.Body.

I\'ve tried to do it inside a middleware:

public async Task Invoke(HttpContext co         


        

Answer 1

Take the request body, read its content, make whatever changes are necessary if at all, then create a new stream to pass down the pipeline. Once accessed, the request stream has to be replaced.

public async Task Invoke(HttpContext context) {
    var request = context.Request;
    if (request.Path.Value.Contains("DataSourceResult")) {
        //get the request body and put it back for the downstream items to read
        var stream = request.Body;// currently holds the original stream                    
        var originalContent = new StreamReader(stream).ReadToEnd();
        var notModified = true;
        try {
            var dataSource = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DataSourceRequest>(originalContent);
            if (dataSource != null && dataSource.Take > 2000) {
                dataSource.Take = 2000;
                var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dataSource);
                //replace request stream to downstream handlers
                var requestContent = new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
                stream = await requestContent.ReadAsStreamAsync();//modified stream
                notModified = false;
            }
        } catch {
            //No-op or log error
        }
        if (notModified) {
            //put original data back for the downstream to read
            var requestData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(originalContent);
            stream = new MemoryStream(requestData);
        }

        request.Body = stream;
    }
    await _next.Invoke(context);
}