Convert HttpRequestMessage to HttpRequest

Question

I'm converting ASP.NET web application to MVC Web Api project. One of my methods expects HttpRequest class. However, Web Api controller holds only HttpRequestMessage (this.Request) object. Do you know how I can convert HttpRequestMessage to HttpRequest?

Solution

You probably don't need to convert from HttpRequestMessage. There is another way:

var context = new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current);
HttpRequestBase request = context.Request;

Comments

[Avi L]

How do I get an 'HttpRequestBase'? should I create one myself? (i.e. create new object and copy 'HttpRequestMessage' parameters to it)

[sobelito]

System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request

[Andy]

This seems awfully like cheating to me but I'm forced to do it if I want to write functions that can be called from ASP.NET Web API controllers as well as ASP.NET MVC controllers. For the life of me I don't understand by web API couldn't just be built on top of MVC (so ApiController could be a subclass of a normal MVC Controller). Instead if you want to use MVC and API together you have to navigate between two parallel but incompatible worlds with the same concepts in each.

[OutstandingBill]

I've seen on the comments under another answer that you shouldn't use System.Web.HttpContext.Current in Web API projects - you can instead use (HttpContextWrapper)Request.Properties["MS_HttpContext"]

[CSharper]

you can get HttpRequestBase using ((HttpContextWrapper)Request.Properties["MS_HttpContext"]).R‌​equest