How to add subfolders to the azure functions app using VScode?

Question

Hello there,

I have sub folders "assets" and "components" inside the content directory of my azure function app. I want to copy these folders to the output directory. How to do that?

I tried including this to my .csproj file but it didn't work for me:

<ItemGroup>
  <None Update="content/**/*.*">
    <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
  </None>
</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup>
  <None Update="content/**/*.*">
    <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
  </None>
</ItemGroup>

Please could you suggest something?

Answer 1

Hi @Adwait Naik Greetings! Thank you for posting the question here.I have tried the below setting in my .csproj file and could push the sub folders to Azure function.

    <None Update="Content\**\**">
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
      <CopyToPublishDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToPublishDirectory>
    </None>

Please note that the output directory is used during development, while the publish directory is used when the project is published.

Once I deployed the code, I could see the folders under the Files section in VS Code. Please find the below image for reference.

The folder directories are added under the Azure function C:\home\site\wwwroot directory. In the above example, to access welcome.html file, you can access it through the path C:\home\site\wwwroot\Content\Files\welcome.html

Here is a snippet of the code I have tested to see if the files can be accessed.

        public IActionResult Run([HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Anonymous, "get", "post")] HttpRequest req)
        {
            _logger.LogInformation("C# HTTP trigger function processed a request.");   
            string baseFolderPath = @"C:\home\site\wwwroot\Content";         
            string fileRelativePath = @"Files\welcome.html";            
            string fullPath = Path.Combine(baseFolderPath, fileRelativePath);                                    
            string html = File.ReadAllText(fullPath);
            return new ContentResult
            {
                Content = html,
                ContentType = "text/html",
                StatusCode = 200
            };

        }

Hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any additional questions or issues.

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