Do I have access to the request dto when I'm handling exceptions occuring outside of services?

Question

With ServiceStack, it's important to implement exception handling/logging in two places:

1. Inside of each ServiceRunner<T>.

      public class MyServiceRunner<T> : ServiceRunner<T>
      {    
           public override object HandleException(IRequestContext requestContext, T request, Exception ex)
             {
                   // Implement your exception handling/logging here.
                   // T request is your request DTO.
             }
       }
   

2. Inside of AppHost, so that you can handle unhandled exceptions occuring outside of services.

   public override void Configure(Container container)
   {
       ExceptionHandler = (req, res, operationName, ex) =>
       {
           //Handle Unhandled Exceptions occurring outside of Services
           //E.g. Exceptions during Request binding or in filters:
       }
    }
   

My Question:

• In #1, you have easy access to the request DTO (i.e. for logging purposes).
• Do I have access to the request DTO (or the request payload equivalent) when I'm handling exceptions occuring outside of services?

Answer 1

In ServiceStack v4 the Request DTO is available from IRequest.Dto, but you would instead register your Service and Unknown Exception handlers with IAppHost.ServiceExceptionHandlers and IAppHost.UncaughtExceptionHandlers

In ServiceStack V3, you could register a GlobalRequestFilter that stores the Request DTO in IRequestContext.Items dictionary which you can get later from the Request Context.