[Mono-dev] State of aspnetwebstack on mono

[Daniel Lo Nigro]

By "aspnetwebstack" do you mean the current ASP.NET stack or do you mean
ASP.NET vNext?

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Martin Thwaites <monoforum at my2cents.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to give a quick update on where I'm at with getting things
> implemented for the aspnetwebstack to work on mono.
>
> As I've said before, my goal is to make it so that the aspnetwebstack
> solution will compile against mono, without tweaking anything (this is
> stage 1).  It's proving to both a relatively small task, but also very
> taxing in terms of me having to learn quite a lot.
>
> *Note: I'm not looking at the tests in aspnetwebstack at the moment, that
> will be stage 2, a lot seem to require things we don't have yet.*
>
> In summary, it's not that far off, and once it's done, at least we'll be
> able to see which methods may need bugfixing as the webstack will load at
> least.  The main issue is getting the PRs approved, but my hope is that if
> we can collate a list of the all, we can ask that they are reviewed
> together and considering they will make one of the most up and coming web
> technologies work on mono, I would say there is a good reason to try and
> prioritise it.
>
> Here are the current PR's, I've reviewed the ones that aren't mine and
> they now look ok, we just need a contributor to review/merge them.
>
> PR874 - from Chris Carroll with a few properties implemented around routes
> PR1163 - from AerisG222 which includes a few changes around Unvalidated
> parameters and some other bits
> PR1349 - From me regarding MachineKey.Protect methods
> PR1353 - From me regarding ReadEntityBodyMode (doesn't actually work, just
> the interface)
> PR1354 - From me regarding Request.Abort
>
> Outstanding items that I could do with help with:
>
>
>    1. ReadEntityBodyMode needs properly implementing
>    2. Request.GetBufferedInputStream needs implementing.
>    Request.GetBufferlessInputStream needs implementing (looks like it's
>    already partially implemented).
>    3. HttpResponseBase.SuppressFormsAuthenticationRedirect needs
>    implementing
>    4. HttpTaskAsyncHandler needs implementing.
>    5. HttpResponse.ClientDisconnectedToken needs implementing (can just
>    return CancellationToken.None and it should be fine but a proper
>    implementation would be better).
>    6. Do something about System.Data.EntityState, it's supposed to live
>    in System.Data.Entity.dll which we don't have but MVC checks against.
>    7. Do something about System.Web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting, I
>    don't want to have to change the aspnetwebstack code to exclude it, so
>    maybe just stub it all out?
>
>
> I'm planning on doing the HttpTaskAyncHandler next which will probably
> take me a couple of evenings this week.  However, if someone thinks that
> they could do it without extensive learning (which is what I'm going to
> need to do), then by all means take that on and I'll do some of the others.
>
> I'll let you all know when I get further.
> Martin
>
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