Mvc.Api.Analyzers not recognizing methods from a Base Class

[prmces]

My app use a Base Controller to reuse some methods inside my Api controllers.

The MVC.API.Analyzer library is looking at my controllers that inherit from this base controller, trying to found undocumented reponse codes. That is correct.

But, inside my Base Controller, I have undocument methods. The swagger UI shows me correctly all the inherited methods, but the analyzers could not point me that I am missing something.

The Controller that inherits from BaseController and its swagger doc. Correct.

The Base Controller. Wrong. (Im missing documentation for NotFound and BadRequest)

Any help on that??

[mkArtakMSFT]

Thanks for contacting us, @prmces.
@pranavkm, please look into this when you'll be back. Thanks!

[pranavkm]

The analyzer uses the same behavior as runtime to determine if something's a controller. For instance, generic types or abstract types aren't considered controllers. While this is true at runtime, it clearly doesn't work very well for inherited types like yours. We should consider relaxing this restriction.

[topres]

Just to add a note to this @mkArtakMSFT

The same issue occurs when using local functions or Func in the controller action. Would be nice if the analyzer check was recursive in the controller action path.