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tradetree
tradetree

Reputation: 438

ServiceStack.UseCases self hosting failure

I am trying to take the github ServiceStack.UseCases/ImageResizer project, and make it self hosted. I thought this would be really easy, so I referenced this: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Self-hosting but AppSelfHostBase is undefined in the project. I then tried AppHostHttpListenerBase and that got me to the point where I could at least hope to setup my self host:

public class AppHost : AppHostHttpListenerBase  
{
    public AppHost() : base("Image Resizer", typeof(AppHost).Assembly) {}
    public override void Configure(Container container) {}
}

public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
    protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        AppHost appHost = new AppHost();
        appHost.Init();
        appHost.Start("http://*:1301/");
    }
}

I then transferred the project over to my CentOS box with mono. In monodevelop I was able to build and run, but it failed during runtime. It appears it still thinks it is an Mvc or Asp.Net project.

Aside from this attempt, I have a working self hosted ServiceStack project running there, but it is not this ImageResizer and all attempts to get my existing project to include the new project have also failed.

I also tried to include code that was part of the working self hosted project into the new one, but then symbols are undefined. Basic symbols like "ServiceStackHost". If I start trying to use Nuget and do more "Install-Package" I can solve this symbol problem, but then just cause other symbols that used to be resolved to no longer work. I don't really fully understand Nuget. Any ideas for a way forward would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 436

Answers (1)

mythz
mythz

Reputation: 143369

ServiceStackHost and AppSelfHostBase are new classes added in ServiceStack v4.

You can use AppHostHttpListenerBase which is a Self-hosting class in ServiceStack v3. You're looking at the v4 docs, here are the docs for ServiceStack v3 which for Self-Hosting is at:

https://github.com/ServiceStackV3/ServiceStackV3/wiki/Self-hosting

Self-Hosting apps are normally created in a Console Application where-as your example is trying to run a self-hosting app inside an ASP.NET Web Application. If you want to run ServiceStack in an ASP.NET app you should inherit AppHostBase, otherwise if you want to run a self-hosting application, create a new Console Application and inherit from AppHostHttpListenerBase.

Upvotes: 1

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