Access the current HttpContext in ASP.NET Core

HttpContext.Current doesn’t exist anymore in ASP.NET Core but there’s a new IHttpContextAccessor that you can inject in your dependencies and use to retrieve the current HttpContext:

public class MyComponent : IMyComponent
{
    private readonly IHttpContextAccessor _contextAccessor;

    public MyComponent(IHttpContextAccessor contextAccessor)
    {
        _contextAccessor = contextAccessor;
    }

    public string GetDataFromSession()
    {
        return _contextAccessor.HttpContext.Session.GetString(*KEY*);
    }
}

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