I have a service that I have setup. When it starts, the standard output posts this:
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[14]
Now listening on: http://localhost:5000
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[14]
Now listening on: https://localhost:5001
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down.
I want to capture this (and any other output) in a string.
The way I am starting the service is not standard. I have class that looks like this:
public static class HostTestService
{
private static WebApplication? currentApp;
public static async Task<List<string>?> StartService()
{
if (currentApp != null) { await StopService(); }
var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder();
var app = builder.Build();
app.Start();
var server = app.Services.GetService<IServer>();
var addressFeature = server?.Features.Get<IServerAddressesFeature>();
var addresses = addressFeature?.Addresses.ToList();
// Set the Current app so that calls to shut it down will now succeed.
currentApp = app;
return addresses;
}
public static async Task StopService()
{
if (currentApp != null)
{
await currentApp.StopAsync(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
await currentApp.DisposeAsync();
currentApp = null;
}
}
}
I then call HostTestService.StartService() in my code (an NUnit test). But I need to capture the output of the service somehow. I would rather not redirect all of the standard output. (This causes issues with other things that need standard output.)
How can I get this output from my WebAPI Core service?