Nancy 2.0.0-clinteastwood feedback

[thecodejunkie]

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TODO

The following is a list of identified task that needs to be performed in the wake of the 2.0.0-clinteastwood release and should be completed before 2.0.0-dangermouse is released. Edit the TODO-list and add items as they are found, add links to pull-requests that are sent to close them

• Make sure AsyncUsageAnalyzers it set to a build dependency in all project.json and packages.config Correct example to mirror here - (pull request Made AsyncUsageAnalyzers a build dependency #2700 @jchannon
• Remove all old *.nuspec files in all projects (including Nancy) (pull-request Remove nuspecs as no longer needed #2658 @jchannon)
• Update Nancy.Hosting.Aspnet\project.json to include web.config.transform in the package (pull-request Included app/web.config.transform files in nuget packages #2661 @thecodejunkie)
• Update Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor\project.json to include app/web.config.transform in the package (pull-request Included app/web.config.transform files in nuget packages #2661 @thecodejunkie)
• Update Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor\project.json to include Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.BuildProvider (including build targets) in the package

Planned changes

• Remove one of Request.Cookies and Request.Headers.Cookie see Cookie  #2628 for discussions
• Improve the Before and After hook syntax and capabilities Improve the Before and After hook syntax and capabilities #2665
• Look into "Potential Performance Problem with Nancy.Routing.Route.Invoke Potential Performance Problem with Nancy.Routing.Route.Invoke #2623"
• Add configuration support for content negotiation. See why remove the .json extension in requestdispather #2671 for discussion on automatic extension resolution
• Update testing infrastructure to support netstandard, see issue Update testing infrastructure #2612 and pull-request Cookie  #2628
• Convert remaining sub-systems to async, see pull-request WIP - First stab at creating a BodyDelegate type #2577
• Remove the last remaining parts of StaticConfiguration

Known limitations

• Some packages may install AsyncUsageAnalyzers as a dependency. This should be safe to be removed and will not be included in 2.0.0-dangermouse as it will be marked as a build dependency in all projects
• The Nancy.Hosting.Aspnet package will not apply *.config transformations`, to wire up the hosting, you will have to apply it yourself
• The Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor package will not apply *.config transformations` to wire up the view engines configuration options, you will have to apply it yourself
• The build providers for Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor are missing from the NuGet package, causing problems with syntax highlighting in Nancy Razor views

[danbarua]

This compiles, but throws a run-time NullReferenceException:

pipelines.BeforeRequest.AddItemToStartOfPipeline((ctx, _) =>
{
    // do stuff
    // Func<NancyContext, Response>, Func<NancyContext, CancellationToken, Response>
    return null;
});

This works:

pipelines.BeforeRequest.AddItemToStartOfPipeline((ctx, _) =>
{
    //do stuff
    // Func<NancyContext, CancellationToken, Task<Response>>
    return Task<Response>.FromResult((Response)null);
});

It took a bit of bashing my head against the wall until I figured it out which is neither super-duper nor happy.

[thecodejunkie]

@danbarua thanks. I've opened #2665 because I want to give the pipeline stuff an overhaul as soon as we've had the time to look at the bootstrapper (which will happen as soon as I've moved us to the new csproj format and that's happening now in #2720)

YAK SHAVING! 😄