Note: This is basically a question from Stack Overflow that was closed for a very long period of time and I fear it might get closed again as primarily opinion based.

I am wondering if my ASP.NET Core 3.1+ Web API should support cancellation for all its methods or only for those which are particularly long. Example:

[Route("api/[controller]")]
public class FooController : ControllerBase
{
    private readonly AppDbContext _dbContext;

    public FooController()
    {
        
    }

    [HttpGet("{id}")]
    public async Task<ActionResult<FooModel>> GetAsync(int id, CancellationToken ct = default)
    {
        // some await to async operation here
    }
}

An obvious benefit is that all actions are cancellable, but this requires passing the token everywhere (not sure, but some tools such as R# might automatically detect when this is forgotten and suggest/apply automatically to add the token).

I am more interested in the performance aspect of this (e.g. does it make sense for calls that are known to be short?).

posted over 3 years ago

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3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Alexei‭

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