Add conceptual docs on accessing HttpContext #771
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Pull Request Overview
This PR adds comprehensive documentation and sample code demonstrating how to access HttpContext from MCP tool call handlers when using the HTTP transport. The documentation includes explanations of using IHttpContextAccessor, code snippets, and working examples.
Key changes:
- Adds new HttpContext concept documentation with examples
- Creates sample project showing HttpContext access patterns in tool handlers
- Updates project files to disable assembly info generation across samples
Reviewed Changes
Copilot reviewed 17 out of 17 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.
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| File | Description |
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| docs/concepts/toc.yml | Adds HTTP Context section to documentation table of contents |
| docs/concepts/httpcontext/httpcontext.md | Main documentation explaining HttpContext access patterns |
| docs/concepts/httpcontext/samples/ | Complete sample project demonstrating HttpContext usage |
| Multiple .csproj files | Adds assembly info generation settings to maintain consistency |
| ModelContextProtocol.slnx | Includes new HttpContext sample project in solution |
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| public ContextTools(IHttpContextAccessor httpContextAccessor) |
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Consider expressing this as a primary constructor for brevity.
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This would allow unifying the two snippets into one for a self-contained tool definition.
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| [McpServerTool(UseStructuredContent = true)] | ||
| [Description("Retrieves the request information from the current HTTP context and returns it as structured content.")] | ||
| public object GetRequestInfo() |
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Can we delete the tools not being used by the documentation?
This PR adds docs and sample to describe how to access the HttpContext for a request from a tool call handler.