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Community Toolkit Azure Data API Builder hosting integration

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Includes: Hosting integration not Client integration

Note

This integration is part of the .NET Aspire Community Toolkit and isn't officially supported by the .NET Aspire team.

In this article, you learn how to use the .NET Aspire Data API Builder hosting integration to run Data API Builder as a container.

Hosting integration

To get started with the .NET Aspire Azure Data API Builder hosting integration, install the 📦 CommunityToolkit.Aspire.Hosting.Azure.DataApiBuilder NuGet package in the app host project.

.NET CLI 
dotnet add package CommunityToolkit.Aspire.Hosting.Azure.DataApiBuilder

For more information, see dotnet add package or Manage package dependencies in .NET applications.

Usage

In the app host project, register and consume the Data API Builder integration using the AddDataAPIBuilder extension method to add the Data API Builder container to the application builder.

C# 
 var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(); 

// Add Data API Builder using dab-config.json 
var dab = builder.AddDataAPIBuilder("dab");

builder.AddProject<Projects.ExampleProject>() 
        .WithReference(dab); 

 // After adding all resources, run the app...

When the .NET Aspire adds a container image to the app host, as shown in the preceding example with the mcr.microsoft.com/azure-databases/data-api-builder image, it creates a new Data API Builder instance on your local machin. A reference to the DAB resource (the dab variable) is added to the ExampleProject project.

Configuration

Parameter Description
name The name of the resource is a required string and it's validated by the ResourceNameAttribute.
configFilePaths The paths to the configuration or schema file(s) for Data API builder. These are optional and are available as a params string[], meaning you can omit them altogether, or provide one or more path inline. When omitted, it defaults to "./dab-config.json".
httpPort The port number for the Data API Builder container is represented as a an int?. By default, the port is null, .NET Aspire assigns a port when this isn't otherwise provided.

Data API Builder container image configuration

You can specify custom container registry/image/tag values by using the following APIs chained to the IResourceBuilder<DataApiBuilderContainerResource>:

  • WithImageRegistry: Pass the desired registry name, such as ghcr.io for the GitHub Container Registry or docker.io for Docker.
  • WithImage: Provide the name of the image, such as azure-databases/data-api-builder.
  • WithImageTag: Specify an image tag to use other than latest, which is the default in most cases.

Consider the following example that demonstrates chaining these APIs together, to fluently express that the Data API Builder's container image is fully qualified as mcr.microsoft.com/azure-databases/data-api-builder:latest:

C# 
var dab = builder.AddDataAPIBuilder("dab")
    .WithImageRegistry("mcr.microsoft.com")
    .WithImage("azure-databases/data-api-builder")
    .WithImageTag("latest");

Database Configuration

If you need to configure your own local database, you can refer to the SQL Server integration documentation.

Once you have your database added as a resource, you can reference it using the following APIs chained to the IResourceBuilder<DataApiBuilderContainerResource>:

C# 
var dab = builder.AddDataAPIBuilder("dab")
    .WithReference(sqlDatabase)
    .WaitFor(sqlDatabase);

The WaitFor method ensures that the database is ready before starting the Data API Builder container.

Referencing the sqlDatabase resource will inject its connection string into the Data API Builder container with the name ConnectionStrings__<DATABASE_RESOURCE_NAME>. Next, update the dab-config.json file to include the connection string for the database:

JSON 
"data-source": {
    "connection-string": "@env('ConnectionStrings__<DATABASE_RESOURCE_NAME>')",
}

Using multiple data sources

You can pass multiple configuration files to the AddDataAPIBuilder method:

C# 
var dab = builder.AddDataAPIBuilder("dab", 
        "./dab-config-1.json", 
        "./dab-config-2.json")
    .WithReference(sqlDatabase1)
    .WaitFor(sqlDatabase1)
    .WithReference(sqlDatabase2)
    .WaitFor(sqlDatabase2);

Note

All files are mounted/copied to the same /App folder.

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