Adding a Home controller to serve requests to the site root with a 204

Author: mathewc

src/WebJobs.Script.WebHost/App_Start/WebApiConfig.cs

@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
             // Web API routes
             config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();
 
+            config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
+                name: "Home",
+                routeTemplate: "",
+                defaults: new { controller = "Home" }
+            );
+
             config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
                 name: "Functions",
                 routeTemplate: "{*uri}",

src/WebJobs.Script.WebHost/Controllers/HomeController.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+// Copyright (c) .NET Foundation. All rights reserved.
+// Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+
+using System.Net;
+using System.Net.Http;
+using System.Web.Http;
+
+namespace WebJobs.Script.WebHost.Controllers
+{
+    public class HomeController : ApiController
+    {
+        public HttpResponseMessage Get()
+        {
+            // TODO: Eventually we'll want to consider returning a content
+            // page
+            return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.NoContent);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/WebJobs.Script.WebHost/WebJobs.Script.WebHost.csproj

@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@
     <Compile Include="App_Start\WebApiConfig.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Controllers\AdminController.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Controllers\FunctionsController.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Controllers\HomeController.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Filters\AuthorizationLevelAttribute.cs" />
     <Compile Include="FunctionSecrets.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Global.asax.cs">

src/WebJobs.Script/Host/ScriptHostManager.cs

@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ public ScriptHost Instance
                 _config.HostConfig = new JobHostConfiguration();
                 ScriptHost newInstance = ScriptHost.Create(_config);
 
+                // TODO: consider using StartAsync here to speed up
+                // restarts.
                 newInstance.Start();
                 lock (_liveInstances)
                 {