File: Constraints\HttpMethodRouteConstraint.cs
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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.

using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;

namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Constraints;

/// <summary>
/// Constrains the HTTP method of request or a route.
/// </summary>
public class HttpMethodRouteConstraint : IRouteConstraint
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Creates a new instance of <see cref="HttpMethodRouteConstraint"/> that accepts the HTTP methods specified
    /// by <paramref name="allowedMethods"/>.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="allowedMethods">The allowed HTTP methods.</param>
    public HttpMethodRouteConstraint(params string[] allowedMethods)
    {
        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(allowedMethods);

        AllowedMethods = new List<string>(allowedMethods);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the HTTP methods allowed by the constraint.
    /// </summary>
    public IList<string> AllowedMethods { get; }

    /// <inheritdoc />
    public virtual bool Match(
        HttpContext? httpContext,
        IRouter? route,
        string routeKey,
        RouteValueDictionary values,
        RouteDirection routeDirection)
    {
        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(routeKey);
        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(values);

        switch (routeDirection)
        {
            case RouteDirection.IncomingRequest:
                // Only required for constraining incoming requests
                ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(httpContext);

                return AllowedMethods.Contains(httpContext.Request.Method, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);

            case RouteDirection.UrlGeneration:
                // We need to see if the user specified the HTTP method explicitly.  Consider these two routes:
                //
                // a) Route: template = "/{foo}", Constraints = { httpMethod = new HttpMethodRouteConstraint("GET") }
                // b) Route: template = "/{foo}", Constraints = { httpMethod = new HttpMethodRouteConstraint("POST") }
                //
                // A user might know ahead of time that a URI he/she is generating might be used with a particular HTTP
                // method.  If a URI will be used for an HTTP POST but we match on (a) while generating the URI, then
                // the HTTP GET-specific route will be used for URI generation, which might have undesired behavior.
                //
                // To prevent this, a user might call GetVirtualPath(..., { httpMethod = "POST" }) to
                // signal that they are generating a URI that will be used for an HTTP POST, so they want the URI
                // generation to be performed by the (b) route instead of the (a) route, consistent with what would
                // happen on incoming requests.
                if (!values.TryGetValue(routeKey, out var obj))
                {
                    return true;
                }

                return AllowedMethods.Contains(Convert.ToString(obj, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture), StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);

            default:
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(routeDirection));
        }
    }
}