Serving data with "transfer-encoding: chunked" on an ApiController in C#' WebAPI

Question

I need to serve chunked transfer encoding data using an ApiController. Because I do not have access to the HttpContext or the HttpRequest, I'm a bit lost as to where to write to the response and where to flush it.

The setup looks like:

public class MyController : ApiController { [Route("testing")] [HttpGet] public string Get() { ... return <response object ot HttpResponseMessage } }

I guess I might be using the wrong base classes/framework/concept? Thanks so much!

CodeCaster · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-14 14:10:21Z

1

You do have access to the Context and the Request. You need access to the Response though:

public string Get() { ActionContext.Response.Headers.TransferEncodingChunked = true; // ... }

answered Jul 14, 2015 at 14:10

CodeCaster

153k24 gold badges237 silver badges287 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

2 Comments

Erik Funkenbusch Over a year ago

Yes, but you need to be careful because there is a bug in certain versions of the framework when using chunking with proxies. See stackoverflow.com/questions/16736233/… and aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/workitem/1124 . This was apparently fixed in the most recent version, but at least one person is reporting the problem still exists.. Not sure about ASP.NET 5 though.

Miquel Over a year ago

I'm actually getting a null ActionContext.Response. I can however create a new HttpResponseMessage and return it

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Serving data with "transfer-encoding: chunked" on an ApiController in C#' WebAPI

1 Answer 1

2 Comments

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

2 Comments

Linked

Related