Access to database context from server code

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Hi, I`m using hangfire (hangfire.io) as a middleware to schedule some jobs in Radzen apps. Tasks can be launched (fire and forget) to, for example, process an uploaded file or in a recurrent way in certain time period to check an email inbox or another resource. The tasks are coded in methods of a static class and can be launched from Startup.Custom.cs and/or a Custom Server Method. I'm used both with success. My question is about database context. I want to use entity framework access to read and write from my hangfire static class and I'm trying to instance a db context but it require an HttpAccessor, I don't have it in my static class because hangfire methods will be triggered by a worker process independent of UI. How I could have a working instance of db context without the HttpAccesor?

Thanks in advance for your support.

Regards

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How do you use the class in Startup.Custom.cs? Perhaps you can just set either the HttpAccessor or the context itself from there something like:

myCustomClass.HttpAccessor = httpAccessor;
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In Startup.Custom.cs:

partial void OnConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services.AddHangfire(configuration =>{
configuration.UseSqlServerStorage(Configuration.GetConnectionString("KPIsConnection"));
});
}

partial void OnConfigure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
app.UseHangfireServer();

        using (var connection = JobStorage.Current.GetConnection())
        {
            foreach (var recurringJob in StorageConnectionExtensions.GetRecurringJobs(connection))
            {
                RecurringJob.RemoveIfExists(recurringJob.Id);
            }
        }
        
        // Fire and Forget
        BackgroundJob.Enqueue(() => JobLeerDatos.MarcarProyecciones(Configuration.GetConnectionString("KPIsConnection")));
        
        // --

        // Recurrent
        
        //RecurringJob.AddOrUpdate(() => JobLeerDatos.Proceso(Configuration.GetConnectionString("KPIsConnection")), "*/5 * * * *");
        // --
    }

If I could get httpAccessor instance I could expose it like a static property or similar in this class?

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Well if you already have access to the connection string you can just instantiate the context.

You can get the IHttpAccessor instance from the IServiceCollection itself:

var httpAccessor = services.BuildServiceProvider().GetService(IHttpContextAccessor) as IHttpContextAccessor;
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Something missing?

6

It is IHttpContextAccessor. Sorry.

7

I'm using:

public static IHttpContextAccessor httpAccessor
{
get; set;

    }
    partial void OnConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services.AddHangfire(configuration =>{
            configuration.UseSqlServerStorage(Configuration.GetConnectionString("KPIsConnection"));
        });

        httpAccessor = services.BuildServiceProvider().GetService<IHttpContextAccessor>() as IHttpContextAccessor;
    }

however, I get null value in httpAccessor... what's wrong?

8

According to this you first have to invoke AddHttpContextAccessor:

services.AddHttpContextAccessor();
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Trying to add it but is a method not available. Link is about asp.net core 2.2 and when this radzen app was created I used .NET Core 2.0. Must I recreate server side code?

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Well that explains it - HttpContextAccessor was added after 2.0. You better recreate the server-side code - try changing the "version" setting in the app.json file to 2.2. You will have to install .NET Core 2.2 as well.