EndpointMapper

Built on top of Minimal APIs and easy to use

Note

If you are updating your project to use EndpointMapper v2 prerelease 3+ see the update guide

Installation

Add the package to your ASP.NET Core project

dotnet add package EndpointMapper

# To add support for OpenAPI (See below for more instructions)
dotnet add package EndpointMapper.OpenApi

Requirements

• .NET 8
• ASP.NET Core 8

Usage

Add this into the Program.cs

app.MapEndpointMapperEndpoints();

Then create a public class that implements IEndpoint and add a static method with attribute HttpMap(HttpMapMethod.Get, "<route>") where you can change HttpMapMethod.Get to any other options for different HTTP verbs and "<route>" to one, or more, routes to map the endpoint to

Tip

see Samples for an example

Note

To bind parameters/inject dependencies to the method function see more below

If you want to use Swagger see this section

Sample

Program.cs:

using EndpointMapper;

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

var app = builder.Build();

app.MapEndpointMapperEndpoints();

app.Run();

Then create a file, in this case it's in the root of the project but it could be in any folder

ExampleEndpoint.cs:

using EndpointMapper;

public class ExampleEndpoint : IEndpoint
{
    [HttpMap(HttpMapMethod.Get, "/example")]
    public static Ok<string> Handle()
    {
        return TypedResults.Ok("Hello world from EndpointMapper");
    }
}

Note

To bind parameters/inject dependencies to the method function see more below

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Parameters Binding and function return

Since EndpointMapper uses the native ASP.NET mapping system to map your endpoint and make them work, you can threat your method like the inline delegate to the app.MapGet(...) method.

So you can do:

• Http Body, Query, Route, Headers binding into the function arguments
• Dependency Injection from the method parameters
• Attributes like [FromBody] or [FromQuery] to explicitly map the required values into arguments
• Return using the Results or TypedResults methods or directly a string or any other values that ASP.NET automatically can translate into a valid HTTP response body

An example of this can be seen in the example where TypedResults is used to send an 200 Status code response back with a body attached that contains a string saying Hello world from EndpointMapper

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OpenAPI support (swagger)

EndpointMapper only supports Swashbuckle.AspNetCore, and you will need to add the EndpointMapper.OpenApi package

Warning

For authentication or XML documentation you may need to add some code to your .AddSwaggerGen(...) call

XML documentation

You will need to add:

• To your .csproj

  • <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile> to generate the XML file to use
  • Optionally, <NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CS1591</NoWarn> to disable the warning Missing XML comment for publicly visible type or member 'Type_or_Member'

• To the .AddSwaggerGen() call

// Get the XML file path from the Assembly
var xmlFilename = $"{Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name}.xml";

// Add the comments into the generation for the OpenApi scheme
config.IncludeXmlComments(Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, xmlFilename), includeControllerXmlComments: true);

Note

You may need to add using System.Reflection; because we use the Assembly class available in the System.Reflection namespace

Note

In the code you need to add the action passed as first argument to .AddSwaggerGen(), config is the name of the variable to which the SwaggerGenOption instance is bound, if you named it in another way you'll need to change the code accordingly, if you're not sure about what you're doing, there is an example of the complete call to .AddSwaggerGen() to the end of the swagger section

Authentication requirements

If you have authentication in your application you need to let swagger know how to authenticate against it, you will need to add to the .AddSwaggerGen() call the registration of Security Definition and if you use the ASP.NET [Authorize] attribute you may also need to add some code to detect the attribute and add the requirement

EndpointMapper.OpenApi provides you an operation filter to add those requirements automatically when it detects the [Authorize] attribute, if you manually check for authentication using a Filter or something else then this is not needed, and you will need something else to add the requirements

The only code you will need to add to your .AddSwaggerGen() call is the following

// Add the security definition with name Bearer and the following options
config.AddSecurityDefinition("Bearer", new OpenApiSecurityScheme
{
    Name = "Bearer JWT",
    Type = SecuritySchemeType.Http,
    In = ParameterLocation.Header,
    Scheme = "Bearer"
});

// Add the operationFilter to add the authentication requirements where needed
config.OperationFilter<AuthenticationRequirementOperationFilter>();

Note

In the code you'll need to add the action passed as first argument to .AddSwaggerGen(), config it's the name of the variable to witch the SwaggerGenOption instance is bound, if you named it in another way you need to change the code accordingly, if you're not sure about what you're doing there is an example of the complete call to .AddSwaggerGen() at the end of the swagger section

AddSwaggerGen example call

This is an example call to the .AddSwaggerGen() method witch has both XML comments integration and user authentication

This call is here to help you understand the code snippet(s) in the context of the whole call, you may not copy-paste all the function as (especially the authentication stuff) it requires edits based on your application needs, if you want more context you can refer to the EndpointMapper.TestApplication/Program.cs file

// builder is the variable assigned to the return value of "WebApplication.CreateBuilder()"
builder.Services.AddSwaggerGen(config =>
{
    // Add the security definition with name Bearer and the following options
    config.AddSecurityDefinition("Bearer", new OpenApiSecurityScheme
    {
        Name = "Bearer JWT",
        Type = SecuritySchemeType.Http,
        In = ParameterLocation.Header,
        Scheme = "Bearer"
    });
    
    // Add the operationFilter to add the authentication requirements where needed
    config.OperationFilter<AuthenticationRequirementOperationFilter>();
    
    // Get the XML file path from the Assembly
    var xmlFilename = $"{Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name}.xml";

    // Add the comments into the generation for the OpenApi scheme
    config.IncludeXmlComments(Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, xmlFilename), includeControllerXmlComments: true);
});

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Using a route group

In previous versions EndpointMapped used to have an option to prefix all the routes. Now this options doesn't exist anymore, see the upgrade guide.

To still have the ability to prefix all your routes by using an ASP.NET Route Group, EndpointMapped used to use it under the hood but now you have to use it yourself.

You can create a Route group by using the MapGroup method on the WebApplication or another route group, then you can use the MapEndpointMapperEndpoints method on the Route group builder instance. If you wanted to configure the group you can now simply use the Route group builder instance you just got.

This now allows to map multiple times your endpoints if you want, for example you could map all your endpoints to both /api and / if you wanted.

Endpoint configurations

Method based configuration

You may want to configure more some of your endpoints, but there is a problem. Since we are using Attributes to map our endpoints and ASP.NET Core doesn't provide attribute to specify a filter attribute, for example, for a minimal API it seems that we can't do much about this.

For this reason EndpointMapper allows you to specify a Configure method by implementing the IConfigureEndpoint, this method gives you access to the RouteHandlerBuilder, the route the endpoint is being mapped to and the HTTP Method, this way you can use the builder like if you were chaining methods to the result of MapGet, MapPost, ecc..

Warning

If you registered your endpoint with the method based approach EndpointMapper won't call the Configure method, as it is called for endpoints mapped by the HttpMap attribute, and you will need to do your configuration in the Register method

Note

Since the Configure method is implemented on the class and EndpointMapper doesn't enforce the 1 handler for class, this method will be called for each endpoint you map in the class you implement the Configure method. To differentiate a route from another the function has 2 another string arguments, one it's the route the endpoint is being mapped to and the other one is the method that is being used to map the endpoint.

There is one only thing to remember when having multiple endpoints in the class is that this method will be called for each route in each HttpMap attribute you have in the class. So if you have 2 methods, each with 2 attributes and 2 routes each you the Configure method will be called a total of 8 times, since in total you are mapping 8 different routes.

Method based registration

If you don't like using attributes to map your endpoints you can implement the IRegisterEndpoint interface and the Register method. In this method you have access to the IEndpointRouteBuilder you use to call the MapEndpointMapperEndpoints method, using the builder you can use the extension methods that ASP.NET Core declares to map all your endpoints, an example is the MapGet or MapPost method.

Warning

Don't use Register method if you need to configure your endpoints and you want to use the Attribute based mapping, for that you can use the Configure method

Note

EndpointMapper checks for both the HttpMap attribute and the Register method to register your endpoints

Updating to v2 prerelease 3+

In the prerelease 3 the public API of EndpointMapper changed quite a bit, so here are all the changes that have been made and you have to do to update your project.

Note

If you are updating from v1 there is one extra thing to do.

The swagger support is now optional, so you need to install the EndpointMapper.OpenApi nuget package and add using EndpointMapper.OpenApi; for the AuthenticationRequirementOperationFilter

• HttpMap<HttpVerb>(<routes>) has now been replaced with HttpMap(HttpMapMethod.<HttpVerb>, <routes>), so a HttpMapGet("/myRoute") now is HttpMap(HttpMapMethod.Get, "/myRoute")
• All your methods that have an HttpMap attribute now needs to be static
• The constructor based DI is no longer supported. You now need to use the DI from the method parameters
• The Configure method now has only 1 overload, Configure(RouteHandlerBuilder, string route, string method)
• the IEndpointConfigurationAttribute interface and the Filter<T> attribute have been deleted. You now need to use the method based configuration
• AddEndpointMapper<T>(this IServiceCollection, Action<EndpointMapperConfiguration>), AddEndpointMapper(this IServiceCollection, Action<EndpointMapperConfiguration>, params Type[]) and AddEndpointMapper(this IServiceCollection, Action<EndpointMapperConfiguration>, params Assembly[]) have been removed.
• UseEndpointMapper(this WebApplication, bool) has been renamed to MapEndpointMapperEndpoints(this IEndpointRouteBuilder)
• You need .NET 8 and ASP.NET Core 8
• The finding of your endpoints is now done at compile time via a source generator and not a runtime using reflection. Now EndpointMapper is NativeAOT friendly.
• The LogTimeTookToInitialize option doesn't exist anymore
• The RoutePrefix and ConfigureGroupBuilder options do not exist anymore. You can still configure EndpointMapper to use a route prefix using a ASP.NET Route Group

To see all the changes that have been made to the EndpointMapper since v1 code you can check the Github commits