ASP.NET Core—access Configuration from static class

Question

I want a simple static class that accesses the Configuration object. All the config info is already read in from the appsettings.json file in the Startup class. I just need an e

Answer 1

Here is a way to obtain the configuration values from a NET.Core page without having to reference these statically but then still being able to pass them to other static functions called from the non-static class.

At the top of your non-static class add this:

private readonly IConfiguration _configuration;

Then in the constructor function bring in the existing configuration as input to the function: IConfiguration configuration

Then assign the configuration to your read only variable inside the constructor function: _configuration = configuration;

Here is an example of what it should look like:

public class IndexModel : PageModel
{
    private readonly IConfiguration _configuration;

    public IndexModel(IConfiguration configuration)
    {
        _configuration = configuration;
    }
}

After this you can reference the configuration in any function in the class by referencing _configuration and can even then pass this on to other static functions that you call from other classes:

public async Task OnGetAsync()
{
    AnotherClass.SomeFunction(_configuration);
}

Then in the called static class I can make use of the configuration values:

public static string SomeFunction(IConfiguration configuration)
{
    string SomeValue = configuration.GetSection("SomeSectionOfConfig")["SomeValue"];
}

I have a class that calls some stored procedures for viewing and amending data and passes parameter values from appsettings.json using this approach.