How to dump entire appsettings.json file in ASP.NET Core Web API - asp.net-core-webapi

Question

I am trying to create a simple GET API endpoint which will return the JSON of the current environment appsettings.json file, for example for the development environment it will return the contents of appsettings.Development.json file and for production environment it will return the contents of appsettings.Production.json file.
I don't know a nice way to dump the entire config file. What I know though is ways to read single config values through the injected config["Key"] or read a section through
config.GetSection("SectionName").Get<MyCustomSectionClass>()
approach. These options are not feasible as the file is big and the content may change.
This is an ASP.NET Core 6 Core Web API application, created through the default Visual Studio template.

Answer 1

If you want to return entire appsettings.xxx.json file, You can try this simple demo. I not sure if there is a better method, But this method works well in my project.
using Newtonsoft.Json;
private readonly IWebHostEnvironment _env;
public WeatherForecastController(IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
_env = env;
}
[HttpGet]
public IActionResult Get()
{
if (_env.IsDevelopment())
{
var path = Path.Combine(_env.ContentRootPath, "appsettings.Development.json");
string json = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(path);
object jsonObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);
return Ok(jsonObject);
}else if (_env.IsProduction())
{
//read from appsettings.Production.json
return Ok();
}
else
{
//..........
return Ok();
}
}