Call a Method inside Controller

Question

I got a .NET Core application, using Angular as a frontend. I have a controller that needs to be triggered before the website is launched. In order to make that happen, I wish I could call the method inside the controller from the Startup class, but it seems to be a bad practice.

How can accomplish this? Can you please provide me an line of code on how to call a method that is inside a controller?

Answer 1

the required code in the controller should be moved to a common module called by both startup and the controller.

note: at startup there is no request, so httpcontext, etc is null.

Answer 2

The class that I need to call is inside a controller. That class is coded like this:

public async Task<IActionResult> InitiateSignOn(string returnUrl = null)
{
var partnerName = _configuration[PartnerName];
await = _ServiceProvider.InitatiateSignOn(partnerName, returnUrl);

return new EmptyReturn();

}

So if I move the above class into a Helper Class. Then, I'm not sure if the code in controller would work. Please advise. Thanks