I'm building a Request/Acknowledge/Poll style REST service with NServiceBus underneath to manage queue processing. I want to give the client a URI to poll for updates.
Therefore I want to return a location header element in my web service as part of the acknowledgement. I can see that it is possible to do this:
return new HttpResult(response, HttpStatusCode.Accepted)
{
Location = base.Request.AbsoluteUri.CombineWith(response.Reference)
}
But for a Url such as: http://localhost:54567/approvals/?message=test
, which creates a new message (I know I should probably just use a POST), the location will be returned as: http://localhost:54567/approvals/?message=test/8f0ab1c1a2ca46f8a98b75330fd3ac5c
.
The ServiceStack request doesn't expose the Uri fragments, only the AbsouteUri. This means that I need to access the original request. I want this to work regardless of whether this is running in IIS or in a self hosted process. The closest I can come up with is the following, but it seems very clunky:
var reference = Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
var response = new ApprovalResponse { Reference = reference };
var httpRequest = ((System.Web.HttpRequest)base.Request.OriginalRequest).Url;
var baseUri = new Uri(String.Concat(httpRequest.Scheme, Uri.SchemeDelimiter, httpRequest.Host, ":", httpRequest.Port));
var uri = new Uri(baseUri, string.Format("/approvals/{0}", reference));
return new HttpResult(response, HttpStatusCode.Accepted)
{
Location = uri.ToString()
};
This now returns: http://localhost:55847/approvals/8f0ab1c1a2ca46f8a98b75330fd3ac5c
Any suggestions? Does this work regardless of how ServiceStack is hosted? I'm a little scared of the System.Web.HttpRequest
casting in a self hosted process. Is this code safe?