Hanfire not logging custom exception with metadata - asp.net-core

I have asp.net core 2.1 application along with HangFire 1.6.17. HangFire is configured to execute a background job at certain interval. The background job calls external API using HttpClient. If the http call fails, then the method throws custom exception with metadata. Idea is hangfire will log the exception with metadata. I followed best-practices-for-exceptions to create exception
public class MyHttpRequestException : Exception
{
public string Content { get; private set; }
public string RequestUri { get; private set; }
public string HttpResponse { get; private set; }
public MyHttpRequestException()
{
}
public MyHttpRequestException(string message)
: base(message)
{
}
public MyHttpRequestException(string message, Exception innerException)
: base(message, innerException)
{
}
public MyHttpRequestException(string message, string content, string httpResponse, string requestUri)
: base(message)
{
Content = content;
RequestUri = requestUri;
HttpResponse = httpResponse;
}
public override string ToString()
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append(base.ToString());
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendLine("Content");
sb.AppendLine(Content);
sb.AppendLine("RequestUri");
sb.AppendLine(RequestUri);
sb.AppendLine("HttpResponse");
sb.AppendLine(this.HttpResponse);
return sb.ToString();
}
}
I also have extension method for HttpResponseMessage which ensures API request is successful, and if not throws MyHttpRequestException
public static class HttpResponseMessageExtensions
{
public static async Task EnsureSuccessStatusCodeAsync(this HttpResponseMessage response)
{
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
return;
}
var content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
var httpResponse = response.ToString();
var requestUri = response.RequestMessage.RequestUri.ToString()
if (response.Content != null)
response.Content.Dispose();
throw new MyHttpRequestException("Error while making http request.", content, httpResponse, requestUri);
}
}
Here is my background Job which is invoked by Hangfire recurring job scheduler
public async Task DoSomething(string url)
{
var response = await _httpClient.GetAsync(url)
await response.EnsureSuccessStatusCodeAsync();
// do something here if everything is okay
}
Issue
When EnsureSuccessStatusCodeAsync method throws MyHttpRequestException then Hangfire logs the exception as expected, and i see that in HangFire's dashboard. However Hangfire only logs Exception message and stack trace. I don't see my custom properties are being logged ( ie. Content, RequestUri, HttpResponse)
In clssic .NET we use SerializationInfo like this SO post
How do i create a custom exception in .NET Core so metadata will also get logged?
Note:
When the MyHttpRequestException gets thrown i noticed exception's ToString() method is getting called
however, i dont see whatever ToString() returns is getting logged by Hangfire.
I dont know if this is hangfire issue, or i need to implement MyHttpRequestException is different way.

The stack trace that you see in Dashboard is formatted. You can see here and here.
Because this custom stack trace format you can see your custom properties.

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Core 7 - Api error handling, model state validation + UseExceptionhandler

I am currently working on implementing some Apis using swagger/swashbuckle in net core 7 and implementing some error handling, I've gone down the route of using an exception handler. With separate endpoints from dev/prod.
E.g. Startup.cs
if (env.IsDevelopment())
{
...details ommited
app.UseExceptionHandler("/dev-error");
}
else
{
...details ommited
app.UseExceptionHandler("/error");
}
ErrorController.cs
[AllowAnonymous]
[ApiExplorerSettings(IgnoreApi = true)]
public class ErrorController : Controller
{
private ILogger _logger;
public ErrorController(ILogger logger)
{
_logger = logger;
}
[Route("dev-error")]
public IAttempt DevError()
{
var context = HttpContext.Features.Get<IExceptionHandlerFeature>();
var exception = context.Error;
return Attempt.Fail(exception);
}
[Route("error")]
public IAttempt Error()
{
var context = HttpContext.Features.Get<IExceptionHandlerFeature>();
var exception = context.Error;
_logger.Log(LogLevel.Error, exception, exception.Message);
switch (exception)
{
case UnauthorizedAccessException:
Response.StatusCode = (int) HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized;
return Attempt.Fail("Unauthorised");
default:
Response.StatusCode = (int) HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError;
return Attempt.Fail("Generic Error");
}
}
}
The idea is that all responses are of IAttempt, so that the FE user can check if its succeeded etc. and whether to handle the result or exception in a user friendly way.
This has been working great up until now when I've been implementing Api's that require the model to be validated. I wanted to amend the IAttempt class to provide modelstate feedback, however I have tried many approaches and cant seem to get modelstate validation flow through the exception handler.
I wanted to implement a custom ValidationException that contains the errors which is then handled in these controllers. But when an exception is thrown in either an IActionFilter or when overriding the InvalidModelStateResponseFactory the exception isn't caught by the exception handler.
Is there a work around? Am I missing something?
Alternatively I could define a InvalidModelStateResponseFactory that returns a similar model(IAttempt), but it would be nice for Failed requests to be handled in one place.
Cheers in advance
I think you can make the InvalidModelStateResponseFactory redirect to the ErrorController, sending the required data to create your response
According to your description, I suggest you could consider using the customer action filter to achieve your requirement.
Inside the custom action filter, we could get the model state's results, then you could throw the exception inside it.
More details, you could refer to below codes:
1.Create the custom action filter:
public class CustomValidationActionFilter : IActionFilter
{
public void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext context)
{
if (!context.ModelState.IsValid)
{
var errorList = context.ModelState.Values
.SelectMany(m => m.Errors)
.Select(m => m.ErrorMessage)
.ToList();
throw new Exception();
}
}
public void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext context) { }
}
2.Inside the program.cs
builder.Services.AddControllersWithViews(options =>
{
options.Filters.Add(new CustomValidationActionFilter());
});
Then if it thrown the exception, it will go to the controller's error action method, since you set the global exception handler.
I was unnecessarily over complicating things so I have dropped what I attempted to do as in theory responses should be handled accordingly to their response status code rather then the object thats passed in.

Blazor WASM controller: read request body causes the IIS process to crash

So I am trying to simply read the body (with string content) in a Blazor WASM ApiController. My code on the server-side:
[AllowAnonymous]
[ApiController]
[Route("[controller]")]
public class SmartMeterDataController : ControllerBase
{
[HttpPost("UploadData")]
public async void UploadData()
{
string body = null;
if (Request.Body.CanRead && (Request.Method == HttpMethods.Post || Request.Method == HttpMethods.Put))
{
Request.EnableBuffering();
Request.Body.Position = 0;
body = await new StreamReader(Request.Body).ReadToEndAsync();
}
}
}
My app builder in Program.cs is pretty much out of the box:
//enable REST API controllers
var mvcBuillder = builder.Services.AddMvcCore(setupAction: options => options.EnableEndpointRouting = false).ConfigureApiBehaviorOptions(options => //activate MVC and configure error handling
{
options.InvalidModelStateResponseFactory = context => //error 400 (bad request)
{
JsonApiErrorHandler.HandleError400BadRequest(context);
return new Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.BadRequestObjectResult(context.ModelState);
};
});
builder.Services.AddControllersWithViews();
builder.Services.AddRazorPages();
...
app.UseRouting();
app.UseMvcWithDefaultRoute();
app.MapRazorPages();
app.MapControllers();
The request body looks like this:
{"api_key":"K12345667565656", "field1":"1.10", "field2":"0.76",
"field3":"0.65", "field4":"455", "field5":"0", "field6":"1324",
"field7":"433761", "field8":"11815" }
Yes, this is JSON. No, I don't want to parse it with [FromBody] or similar.
POSTing to this endpoint causes the following exception (as seen in the Windows event viewer thingy):
Application: w3wp.exe
CoreCLR Version: 6.0.1222.56807
.NET Version: 6.0.12
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
Object name: 'HttpRequestStream'.
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IIS.Core.HttpRequestStream.ValidateState(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IIS.Core.HttpRequestStream.ReadAsync(Memory`1 destination, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IIS.Core.WrappingStream.ReadAsync(Memory`1 destination, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.FileBufferingReadStream.ReadAsync(Memory`1 buffer, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at System.IO.StreamReader.ReadBufferAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at System.IO.StreamReader.ReadToEndAsyncInternal()
After that, a second error is always logged. It states something like it is described here.
Note that it's usually not the first, but the second or third POST that causes this. After this, the error keeps happening with every POST and after a short while the application stops working and the Windows Server 2019 need to be rebooted.
According to the internet, the code should work. Anyone have a guess why it doesn't?
I use this HttpContext extension method to read the request body and cache it in the context in case needed later in the pipeline. It works for me.
Notice the condition around EnableBuffering. Perhaps adding that condition to your code will help.
public static async Task<string> GetRequestBodyAsStringAsync(
this HttpContext httpContext)
{
if (httpContext.Items.TryGetValue("BodyAsString", out object? value))
return (string)value!;
if (!httpContext.Request.Body.CanSeek)
{
// We only do this if the stream isn't *already* rewindable,
// as EnableBuffering will create a new stream instance
// each time it's called
httpContext.Request.EnableBuffering();
}
httpContext.Request.Body.Position = 0;
StreamReader reader = new(httpContext.Request.Body, Encoding.UTF8);
string bodyAsString = await reader.ReadToEndAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
httpContext.Request.Body.Position = 0;
httpContext.Items["BodyAsString"] = bodyAsString;
return bodyAsString;
}
EDIT ...
Possibly, your issue could also be related to fact your controller method is returning a void instead of Task?
Finally, I found the original article I used for my extension method. Interestingly, if you that extension method for the FIRST time after model-binding then it won't work (in my project I do call it from middleware).
https://markb.uk/asp-net-core-read-raw-request-body-as-string.html
Adding:
public class EnableRequestBodyBufferingMiddleware
{
private readonly RequestDelegate _next;
public EnableRequestBodyBufferingMiddleware(RequestDelegate next) =>
_next = next;
public async Task InvokeAsync(HttpContext context)
{
context.Request.EnableBuffering();
await _next(context);
}
}
and
app.UseMiddleware<EnableRequestBodyBufferingMiddleware>();
may therefore also help.

Set up logging with Blazor WebAssembly

I'm doing some experiments with Blazor and want to set up logging. I see that Blazor logs to Microsoft.Extensions.Logging out of the box and that the log messages go to the developer console inside the browser. That is a nice start.
Now I want to try and log messages to other destinations as well. It could be a cloud-service. I'm wondering where to set that up. In ASP.NET Core, you would set it up using the ConfigureLogging method in Program.cs. But this isn't available with Blazor:
public static IWebAssemblyHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
BlazorWebAssemblyHost.CreateDefaultBuilder()
.UseBlazorStartup<Startup>()
.ConfigureLogging(...); // <- compile error
As a fallback, I'm trying to set it up through ConfigureServices in Startup.cs:
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services.AddLogging(builder => builder
.AddMyLogger()
.SetMinimumLevel(LogLevel.Information));
}
with AddMyLogger:
public static ILoggingBuilder AddMyLogger(this ILoggingBuilder builder)
{
builder.Services.AddSingleton<ILoggerProvider, MyLoggerProvider>();
return builder;
}
and MyLoggerProvider:
public class MyLoggerProvider : ILoggerProvider
{
public ILogger CreateLogger(string categoryName)
{
return new MyLogger();
}
public void Dispose()
{
}
}
and MyLogger:
public class MyLogger : ILogger
{
public MyLogger()
{
}
public IDisposable BeginScope<TState>(TState state)
{
return null;
}
public bool IsEnabled(LogLevel logLevel)
{
return true;
}
public void Log<TState>(LogLevel logLevel, EventId eventId, TState state, Exception exception, Func<TState, Exception, string> formatter)
{
}
}
The AddMyLogger-method is called but my logger is never created or receives any Log-calls.
Am I doing something wrong here or is logging with Blazor WebAssembly simply not ready yet?
I was trying something similar. In my case, the Log method in MyLogger gets called; however it fails at following line of code
using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(fullFilePath, true)) //Fails here
{
streamWriter.WriteLine(logRecord);
}
When I put it in try catch block, I got the exception "Children could not be evaluated".
While researching I came across following link. Steve Sanderson's response might make sense of the behavior
Reading local files #16156
BTW It's been a long time, please let me know the solution you came up with.

return status code Unauthorized for custom IActionFilter in WebAPI

I am working with asp.net WebAPI and I need to create a custom ActionFilter that does a quick check to see if the user requesting the URI should actually be able to get data back.
They have already been authorized to use the web service via basic auth and their role has been validated via a custom role provider.
The last thing I need to do is to check that they have permission to view the data they are requesting with a parameter in their URI.
Here is my code:
public class AccessActionFilter : FilterAttribute, IActionFilter
{
public System.Threading.Tasks.Task<System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage> ExecuteActionFilterAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<System.Threading.Tasks.Task<System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
{
var result = //code to see if they have permission returns either 0 or 1
if (result==0) {
throw new ArgumentException("You do not have access to this resource");
}
return continuation();
}
}
Currently I just throw an error which is not what I want, I'd rather return System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized but I am a little miffed by the method I am overriding and I do not really understand it completely.
How would I go about returning that value?
You are probably best sticking to an exception but using the HttpResponseException which will return an Http status code too.
throw new HttpResponseException(new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized));
Good question here about this.
p.s.
It may be simpler/cleaner to implement ActionFilterAttribute
public class AccessActionFilter : ActionFilterAttribute
{
public override void OnActionExecuting(HttpActionContext actionContext)
{
var result = //code to see if they have permission returns either 0 or 1
if (result==0)
{
throw new HttpResponseException(new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized));
}
base.OnActionExecuting(actionContext);
}
}
Instead of throwing exception you can set status code
public class ExecutionFilterAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
public override void OnActionExecuting(HttpActionContext actionContext)
{
var result = 0;//code to see if they have permission returns either 0 or 1
if (result == 0)
{
actionContext.Response = new HttpResponseMessage()
{
StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized,
Content = new StringContent("Unauthorized User")
};
}
base.OnActionExecuting(actionContext);
}
}

How to intercept WCF faults and return custom response instead?

Consider the following very basic WCF service implementation:
public enum TransactionStatus
{
Success = 0,
Error = 1
}
public class TransactionResponse
{
public TransactionStatus Status { get; set; }
public string Message { get; set; }
}
[ServiceContract]
[XmlSerializerFormat]
public interface ITestService
{
[OperationContract]
TransactionResponse DoSomething(string data);
}
public class TestService : ITestService
{
public TransactionResponse DoSomething(string data)
{
var result = ProcessData(data); // may throw InvalidOperationException
return new TransactionResponse()
{
Status = TransactionStatus.Success,
Message = result
};
}
private string ProcessData(string data)
{
if (data = "foobar")
throw new InvalidOperationException();
return data;
}
}
In the instance that the DoSomething method does throw an InvalidOperationException, I would like to intercept the fault and return a TransactionResponse object, rather than have WCF raise a FaultException with the client. How can I do this without surrounding each method body in a huge try catch statement? Is there some where I can hook into? Can I do this with some sort of attribute or something? An example of how I would like to handle it can be demonstrated using ASP.NET MVC:
public class ApiController : BaseController
{
protected override void OnException(ExceptionContext filterContext)
{
var ex = filterContext.Exception;
var message = HttpContext.IsDebuggingEnabled ? ex.ToString() : ex.Message;
_logger.Error("Error processing request for controller {0}, action {1}",
filterContext.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"],
filterContext.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["action"]);
_logger.Error(ex.ToString());
filterContext.ExceptionHandled = true;
filterContext.Result = ToXml(new ApiResult(false)
{
Message = message
});
}
// ...
}
Using the above method in MVC, I can ensure that no matter which controller action throws an exception, I can handle it and return an appropriately formatted ActionResult containing the necessary info. Is there a way to do this kind of thing with WCF?
Check out the WCF IErrorHandler interface - it allows you to centrally define one way in your service implementation to catch all exceptions and either swallow them, or convert them to WCF-friendly SOAP exceptions. This will make sure the channel between the client and the server isn't faulted, e.g. it can still be used after this call failed.
I don't understand why you'd want to "catch" the SOAP faults and convert those to something else, though.... nor do I know of any support that WCF would give you. The basic assumption is: catch .NET exceptions and convert them into interoperable SOAP faults