[Mono-dev] ASP.NET 4.5 Async Pipeline

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hey,

Sadly, I am not attending Future Decoded.

Miguelk

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Martin Thwaites <monoforum at my2cents.co.uk>
wrote:

> That's great,  there's only a few bits that need doing to make it compile,
> and I'm pretty sure I can handle those.
>
> I've put in some crude implementations of the missing elements to try and
> scope the work involved, and unless there's something wrong in those, it
> needs some further work under the hood.
>
> The issue I see us that I'm getting never ending calls to Webapi
> endpoints, whereas standard (non-async) MVC controllers work fine.
>
> So my perception is that there is something stopping the pipeline from
> completing.
>
> I think the best option is to complete the missing elements that I believe
> I can do, then possibly post a simple Webapi solution that reproduces it.
> Then maybe you could use some of your (obviously large amount of) free time
> to have a quick look.  Unless there is something off the top of your head
> that you think I could look at?
>
> On a side note, do you think you'll be going to Future Decoded on the
> 12th? There's a possibility I might be going and it would be nice to put a
> face to the name.
>
> Thanks
> Martin
> Hey,
>
> The changes should be done in Mono.   Just enough to have aspnetwebstack
> compile out of the box.
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Martin Thwaites <
> monoforum at my2cents.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Miguel,
>>
>> That is a great idea around making them synchronous in the background.
>> I'm sure this would cause some issues for people, however if we can hit the
>> main use cases in the initial stab that would be great.
>>
>> Are you suggesting that this is done in the Webapi code, or somewhere in
>> the mono source.  My goal has been to make it so we don't need our own
>> implementation of the aspnetwebstack.  It would also be great if we can say
>> that async controllers work in mono, just run synchronously, rather than
>> "use these dlls and Webapi will work".
>>
>> Thanks for offering to help out, if there is some initial Google terms
>> you could point me in the direction of that would be great as Async
>> pipeline doesn't seem to be specific enough.
>>
>> Martin
>> On 22 Oct 2014 14:58, "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel at xamarin.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> You could start by "faking" the async controllers for now.   This would
>>> be enough to support WebAPI, even if behind the scenes it is entirely sync.
>>>
>>> This buys us some time to research the subject.   There were a few
>>> interesting posts on MSDN, and the blogs about how this works a couple of
>>> years ago, so those would be great research material.
>>>
>>> I can assist (in my copious spare time) with this, as I wrote chunks of
>>> the current ASP.NET pipeline with Gonzalo.
>>>
>>> Miguel
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Martin Thwaites <
>>> monoforum at my2cents.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm still working through implementing methods to mvc/webapi, however,
>>>> I've found that the newer versions of WebApi are reliant on async
>>>> controllers.
>>>>
>>>> Now, my perception is that this means that the note on the mono
>>>> compatibility page around the Async Pipeline needs to be implemented for
>>>> that to work.  First, please let me know if I've misunderstood.
>>>>
>>>> If I take this on, I'm going to need some help to implement it.  I see
>>>> 2 options, first, someone helps me out with some resources that I can use
>>>> to devise a way to do it, articles on the process, examples of where it
>>>> might be implemented in the current codebase for other things, etc.
>>>> Second, we enlist the help of someone who is more equipped.
>>>>
>>>> I believe that there are quite a few people who are interested in
>>>> getting this implemented, and therefore I have an idea that we could
>>>> potentially crowd fund the money to pay a contractor to potentially do it.
>>>> My hope would be that with a financial incentive, someone within Xamarin
>>>> may be willing to put forward their spare time to do it.  This would likely
>>>> give us a better chance of getting it merged due to them already being used
>>>> Miguel's (understandably high) standards and the processes involved in
>>>> contributing.
>>>>
>>>> So, is there anybody else who would be willing to donate to this (I'm
>>>> thinking something like a kickstarter campaign so that people can get their
>>>> money back if it doesn't go ahead).
>>>>
>>>> Also, does anyone who has an idea of how it would be done have any idea
>>>> what sort of effort we would be looking at?
>>>>
>>>> Alternatively, can someone give me an idea of where to start with
>>>> implementing it?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Martin
>>>>
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>>>
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