Polly with .NET 6, Part 3 - Dependency Injection of a Policy into a Minimal API Endpoint

Mar 4, 2022 # Polly, dotNet6, Dependency Injection, WebApi, Minimal API

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If you are using .NET 6 with the traditional Startup.cs and Program.cs, you don’t need to change anything about how you are using Polly. It all works the same.

But if you are using the new “top-level” statements and minimal API, it’s all very different.

Add Package and `Using`

Add the Polly NuGet package to you project -

dotnet add package Polly

In Program.cs add a using statement at the top -

using Polly;

Policy and DI container

Create the policy and add it to the service collection -

builder.Services.AddSingleton<IAsyncPolicy<HttpResponseMessage>>(Policy.HandleResult<HttpResponseMessage>(r => !r.IsSuccessStatusCode)
.WaitAndRetryAsync(3, retryAttempt => TimeSpan.FromSeconds(retryAttempt)));

var app = builder.Build();

Endpoints and DI

Create an endpoint that returns errors 75% of the time -

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int _requestCount = 0; 

app.MapGet("/Inventory/{id}", (int id) =>
{
    _requestCount++;

    if (_requestCount % 4 == 0) // only one of out four requests will succeed
    {
        System.Console.WriteLine($"{_requestCount} It worked!");
        return Results.Ok(15);
    }

    System.Console.WriteLine($"{_requestCount} Something went wrong");
    return Results.Problem("Something went wrong");
});

Add an endpoint that takes the Polly policy by DI -

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app.MapGet("/Catalog/{id}", async (int id, IAsyncPolicy<HttpResponseMessage> policy) =>
{
    HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
    httpClient.BaseAddress = new System.Uri(@"http://localhost:5000/");
    string requestEndpoint = $"Inventory/{id}";

    HttpResponseMessage response = await policy.ExecuteAsync(() => httpClient.GetAsync(requestEndpoint));

    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
    {
        int itemsInStock = await response.Content.ReadFromJsonAsync<int>();
        return Results.Ok(itemsInStock);
    }
    return Results.Problem("Something went wrong calling the inventory");
});

Start the application, and hit http://localhost:5000/catalog/1. You will see console statements showing the retries.

That’s it, not too difficult.

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Polly dotNet6 Dependency Injection WebApi Minimal API

Polly with .NET 6, Part 3 - Dependency Injection of a Policy into a Minimal API Endpoint

Add Package and Using

Policy and DI container

Endpoints and DI

Related

Add Package and `Using`