Endpoint name metadata should be set automatically to the method name when Map overload is called passing a MethodGroup

[DamianEdwards]

Endpoint names are used to lookup endpoints when generating links using LinkGenerator, and as their unique per application are a good candidate for using as the operationId for an endpoint in OpenAPI (Swagger) documents.

(domaindrivendev/Swashbuckle.AspNetCore#2165 is tracking setting the operationId from endpoint name by default in Swashbuckle.)

Endpoint names are set using the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.IEndpointNameMetadata interface. In the framework today this can be set imperatively by adding an instance of Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.EndpointNameMetadata to the endpoint's metadata, e.g. builder.WithMetadata(new EndpointNameMetadata("GetTodoById")). Issues #34538 and #34539 are tracking providing further ways to define endpoint names manually.

In minimal APIs we should automatically set the endpoint name to the value of MethodInfo.Name when the endpoint is defined using a MethodGroup rather than a lambda or anonymous delegate, e.g.:

// These endpoints do not have names
app.MapGet("/hello", () => "Hello");
app.MapGet("/goodbye/{name}", (string name) => $"Goodbye {name}");

// These endpoints have their name set automatically
app.MapGet("/todos/{id}", GetTodoById);
app.MapPost("/todos", AddTodo);

async Task<IResult> GetTodoById(int id, TodoDb db)
{
    return await db.Todos.FindAsync(id)
        is Todo todo
            ? Results.Ok(todo)
            : Results.NotFound();
};

async Task<IResult> AddTodo(Todo todo, TodoDb db)
{
    db.Todos.Add(todo);
    await db.SaveChangesAsync();

    return Results.CreatedAtRoute(nameof(GetTodoById), todo);
}

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[DamianEdwards]

@rafikiassumaniMSFT was this done? The PR I knew about is still in draft #35069

[rafikiassumani-msft]

@DamianEdwards I learned today that we might not be able to do this at the moment due to the behavior implications in MVC. @javiercn @pranavkm @davidfowl . I am happy to re-open the issue and discuss further next week.

[captainsafia]

Yep -- I think that would be helpful. I was OOF last week so would be good to get context on the reasoning behind this. I know @javiercn had posted a comment in the PR around have duplicate EndpointNames but wasn't sure it that was the only thing.

[davidfowl]

I think the fact that local function names are mangled makes this less attractive. If we can make that work somehow then we can revisit...

[DamianEdwards]

Here's what I did in my playground app to enable this: https://github.com/DamianEdwards/MinimalApiPlayground/blob/main/src/MinimalApiPlayground/Properties/OpenApi.cs#L137

Fair warning, it assumes the format of compiler-generated method names and uses Regex to find the local function name. Ideally the compiler would add an attribute to the method to preserve the original name in the case the user provided one.