Dahomey.Cbor.AspNetCore

Asp.Net Core Support for Dahomey.Cbor

Features

• Asp.net core 2.1, 2.2, 3.0 and 3.1 CBOR formatters

Setup

You can enable Dahomey.Cbor as a CBOR formatter in ASP.NET Core 2.1 or 2.2 by using the Nuget package Dahomey.Cbor.AspNetCore. To enable it, add the extension method AddDahomeyCbor(CborOptions options = null) to the AddMvc()/AddControllers() call in ConfigureServices

Asp.net core 2.x

// This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    CborOptions options = new CborOptions();
    services.AddMvc()
      .AddDahomeyCbor(options);
}

Asp.net core 3.x

// This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    CborOptions options = new CborOptions();
    services.AddControllers()
      .AddDahomeyCbor(options);
}

HTTP Headers

If an incoming HTTP request holds the following headers:

• Content-Type with the value application/cbor: the Request body will be deserilized in CBOR.
• Accept with the value application/cbor: the Response body will be serialized in CBOR.

If the headers are missing, the default JSON formatters will be used.