I’ve written a few blog posts about HttpClientFactory and HttpClient and these are proving popular topics. There exists some confusion about how HttpClient should be used and there is a degree of mystery around how it actually works. In this post, I want to begin a potential series where we will explore the internals of […]
A common question that I get asked quite often and a point of reasonable confusion for developers is “Should I dispose of HttpClient or not?” There isn’t one yes or no answer to this. It really does depend on a few key factors. In this post, I’ll try to answer this question with enough code snippets […]
In a previous post, I looked at how we could use the Polly context to obtain a retry count after policy execution. In this post, I want to explore a similar requirement that can also be solved by using the Polly context; this time to pass in an ILogger to be used for logging messages […]
I’ve been using Polly for a number of years now. For the most part, my usage of the library has been to solve some quite basic problems; commonly to implement retry logic when calling external services for example. In this post, I want to explore a requirement I had when using Polly within a library […]
Back in February I spotted an issue on the ASP.NET Core Docs repository. The issue was a requirement for new documentation about the IHttpClientFactory feature being added in ASP.NET Core 2.1. I’d been following the work on IHttpClientFactory for a while and had written a couple of posts about the functionality based on the nightly builds. […]