Use ASP.NET Core 2.1 UrlHelper in ApplicationStarted event outside of controllers to warmup Kestrel












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Building MVC urls in IApplicationLifetime.ApplicationStarted event tryping different things always ended inexceptions. For example



    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) {
services.AddMvc().SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_1);
services.AddSingleton<IHttpContextAccessor, HttpContextAccessor>();
services.AddSingleton<IActionContextAccessor, ActionContextAccessor>();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, IApplicationLifetime appLife, IServiceProvider serviceProvider) {
appLife.ApplicationStarted.Register(() => {
var helperFactory = serviceProvider.GetService<IUrlHelperFactory>();
var ctx = serviceProvider.GetService<IActionContextAccessor>();
});
}



System.ObjectDisposedException: "Cannot access a disposed object."




IActionContextAccessor seems to be the problem: Since we're not in a http request, no ActionContext is avaliable. When directly injecting IActionContextAccessor to Configure, I got an object. But It's property ActionContext is null, which would be required for UrlHelper constructor:



var helper = new UrlHelper(actionContext.ActionContext);


Since only need information about routing were required from those context, I tried to create some kind of fake context with my routes



    IRouter localRoutes;
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, IApplicationLifetime appLife, IServiceProvider serviceProvider) {
appLife.ApplicationStarted.Register(() => {
var routeData = new RouteData();
routeData.PushState(localRoutes, new RouteValueDictionary(), new RouteValueDictionary());

var urlHelperFactory = app.ApplicationServices.GetRequiredService<IUrlHelperFactory>();
IUrlHelper helper = urlHelperFactory.GetUrlHelper(
new ActionContext(
new DefaultHttpContext(),
routeData,
new ActionDescriptor() { })
);

string url = helper.Action("Index", "Home");
});

app.UseMvc(routes => {
routes.MapRoute(
name: "default",
template: "{controller=Dashboard}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
localRoutes = routes.Build();
});
}


At the helper.Action call it generates some exception:




System.ArgumentNullException: "Value cannot be null."




Don't know how to fix this. I don't want to generate urls manually since changes need to apply on multiple places.



Background: Application warmup



My ASP.NET Core 2 app takes multiple seconds to serve the first request after startup, where following requests are pretty fast. Since this is not acceptable for user experience, I want to warmup my application.



The old 4.x IIS stack has preloadEnabled which is exactly was I need:




Specifies that IIS simulates a user request to the default page of an application or virtual directory so that it is initialized. [...]




Sadly it seems that there is no such an option for the new Kestrel webserver that can run on Linux, too. So I'd like to implement something like this on my own by making 2-3 requests.










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  • You could just use string url = "/Home/Index";.

    – juunas
    Jan 2 at 18:01


















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Building MVC urls in IApplicationLifetime.ApplicationStarted event tryping different things always ended inexceptions. For example



    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) {
services.AddMvc().SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_1);
services.AddSingleton<IHttpContextAccessor, HttpContextAccessor>();
services.AddSingleton<IActionContextAccessor, ActionContextAccessor>();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, IApplicationLifetime appLife, IServiceProvider serviceProvider) {
appLife.ApplicationStarted.Register(() => {
var helperFactory = serviceProvider.GetService<IUrlHelperFactory>();
var ctx = serviceProvider.GetService<IActionContextAccessor>();
});
}



System.ObjectDisposedException: "Cannot access a disposed object."




IActionContextAccessor seems to be the problem: Since we're not in a http request, no ActionContext is avaliable. When directly injecting IActionContextAccessor to Configure, I got an object. But It's property ActionContext is null, which would be required for UrlHelper constructor:



var helper = new UrlHelper(actionContext.ActionContext);


Since only need information about routing were required from those context, I tried to create some kind of fake context with my routes



    IRouter localRoutes;
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, IApplicationLifetime appLife, IServiceProvider serviceProvider) {
appLife.ApplicationStarted.Register(() => {
var routeData = new RouteData();
routeData.PushState(localRoutes, new RouteValueDictionary(), new RouteValueDictionary());

var urlHelperFactory = app.ApplicationServices.GetRequiredService<IUrlHelperFactory>();
IUrlHelper helper = urlHelperFactory.GetUrlHelper(
new ActionContext(
new DefaultHttpContext(),
routeData,
new ActionDescriptor() { })
);

string url = helper.Action("Index", "Home");
});

app.UseMvc(routes => {
routes.MapRoute(
name: "default",
template: "{controller=Dashboard}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
localRoutes = routes.Build();
});
}


At the helper.Action call it generates some exception:




System.ArgumentNullException: "Value cannot be null."




Don't know how to fix this. I don't want to generate urls manually since changes need to apply on multiple places.



Background: Application warmup



My ASP.NET Core 2 app takes multiple seconds to serve the first request after startup, where following requests are pretty fast. Since this is not acceptable for user experience, I want to warmup my application.



The old 4.x IIS stack has preloadEnabled which is exactly was I need:




Specifies that IIS simulates a user request to the default page of an application or virtual directory so that it is initialized. [...]




Sadly it seems that there is no such an option for the new Kestrel webserver that can run on Linux, too. So I'd like to implement something like this on my own by making 2-3 requests.










share|improve this question























  • You could just use string url = "/Home/Index";.

    – juunas
    Jan 2 at 18:01
















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Building MVC urls in IApplicationLifetime.ApplicationStarted event tryping different things always ended inexceptions. For example



    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) {
services.AddMvc().SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_1);
services.AddSingleton<IHttpContextAccessor, HttpContextAccessor>();
services.AddSingleton<IActionContextAccessor, ActionContextAccessor>();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, IApplicationLifetime appLife, IServiceProvider serviceProvider) {
appLife.ApplicationStarted.Register(() => {
var helperFactory = serviceProvider.GetService<IUrlHelperFactory>();
var ctx = serviceProvider.GetService<IActionContextAccessor>();
});
}



System.ObjectDisposedException: "Cannot access a disposed object."




IActionContextAccessor seems to be the problem: Since we're not in a http request, no ActionContext is avaliable. When directly injecting IActionContextAccessor to Configure, I got an object. But It's property ActionContext is null, which would be required for UrlHelper constructor:



var helper = new UrlHelper(actionContext.ActionContext);


Since only need information about routing were required from those context, I tried to create some kind of fake context with my routes



    IRouter localRoutes;
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, IApplicationLifetime appLife, IServiceProvider serviceProvider) {
appLife.ApplicationStarted.Register(() => {
var routeData = new RouteData();
routeData.PushState(localRoutes, new RouteValueDictionary(), new RouteValueDictionary());

var urlHelperFactory = app.ApplicationServices.GetRequiredService<IUrlHelperFactory>();
IUrlHelper helper = urlHelperFactory.GetUrlHelper(
new ActionContext(
new DefaultHttpContext(),
routeData,
new ActionDescriptor() { })
);

string url = helper.Action("Index", "Home");
});

app.UseMvc(routes => {
routes.MapRoute(
name: "default",
template: "{controller=Dashboard}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
localRoutes = routes.Build();
});
}


At the helper.Action call it generates some exception:




System.ArgumentNullException: "Value cannot be null."




Don't know how to fix this. I don't want to generate urls manually since changes need to apply on multiple places.



Background: Application warmup



My ASP.NET Core 2 app takes multiple seconds to serve the first request after startup, where following requests are pretty fast. Since this is not acceptable for user experience, I want to warmup my application.



The old 4.x IIS stack has preloadEnabled which is exactly was I need:




Specifies that IIS simulates a user request to the default page of an application or virtual directory so that it is initialized. [...]




Sadly it seems that there is no such an option for the new Kestrel webserver that can run on Linux, too. So I'd like to implement something like this on my own by making 2-3 requests.










share|improve this question














Building MVC urls in IApplicationLifetime.ApplicationStarted event tryping different things always ended inexceptions. For example



    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) {
services.AddMvc().SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_1);
services.AddSingleton<IHttpContextAccessor, HttpContextAccessor>();
services.AddSingleton<IActionContextAccessor, ActionContextAccessor>();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, IApplicationLifetime appLife, IServiceProvider serviceProvider) {
appLife.ApplicationStarted.Register(() => {
var helperFactory = serviceProvider.GetService<IUrlHelperFactory>();
var ctx = serviceProvider.GetService<IActionContextAccessor>();
});
}



System.ObjectDisposedException: "Cannot access a disposed object."




IActionContextAccessor seems to be the problem: Since we're not in a http request, no ActionContext is avaliable. When directly injecting IActionContextAccessor to Configure, I got an object. But It's property ActionContext is null, which would be required for UrlHelper constructor:



var helper = new UrlHelper(actionContext.ActionContext);


Since only need information about routing were required from those context, I tried to create some kind of fake context with my routes



    IRouter localRoutes;
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, IApplicationLifetime appLife, IServiceProvider serviceProvider) {
appLife.ApplicationStarted.Register(() => {
var routeData = new RouteData();
routeData.PushState(localRoutes, new RouteValueDictionary(), new RouteValueDictionary());

var urlHelperFactory = app.ApplicationServices.GetRequiredService<IUrlHelperFactory>();
IUrlHelper helper = urlHelperFactory.GetUrlHelper(
new ActionContext(
new DefaultHttpContext(),
routeData,
new ActionDescriptor() { })
);

string url = helper.Action("Index", "Home");
});

app.UseMvc(routes => {
routes.MapRoute(
name: "default",
template: "{controller=Dashboard}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
localRoutes = routes.Build();
});
}


At the helper.Action call it generates some exception:




System.ArgumentNullException: "Value cannot be null."




Don't know how to fix this. I don't want to generate urls manually since changes need to apply on multiple places.



Background: Application warmup



My ASP.NET Core 2 app takes multiple seconds to serve the first request after startup, where following requests are pretty fast. Since this is not acceptable for user experience, I want to warmup my application.



The old 4.x IIS stack has preloadEnabled which is exactly was I need:




Specifies that IIS simulates a user request to the default page of an application or virtual directory so that it is initialized. [...]




Sadly it seems that there is no such an option for the new Kestrel webserver that can run on Linux, too. So I'd like to implement something like this on my own by making 2-3 requests.







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  • You could just use string url = "/Home/Index";.

    – juunas
    Jan 2 at 18:01





















  • You could just use string url = "/Home/Index";.

    – juunas
    Jan 2 at 18:01



















You could just use string url = "/Home/Index";.

– juunas
Jan 2 at 18:01







You could just use string url = "/Home/Index";.

– juunas
Jan 2 at 18:01














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