[Question] Serving static files - AsyncApp

[gastonoterom]

Hello! First and foremost, awesome library.

I am working on a project, it's migrating an API from Tornado to Connexion. Besides the main API, this server has a landing page which needs resources from the 'static' folder to render correctly.

I've read some issues to solve this:

• Unable to serve the static folder #1637
• [question] How to serve static files ? #441

But we decided to use the AsyncApp instead of the FlaskApp.

I figured that since the connexion middleware uses starlette, this can be done to mount the static files folder:

starlette_router = app._middleware_app.router

starlette_router.routes.append(
  Mount("/static", app=StaticFiles(directory="static"), name="static"),
)

This currently works.

My questions are these:

• Is there any way to do something similar without accessing protected attributes?
• Is this even supported by the connexion framework?
• Is this too much of a specific requirement that it shouldn't be part of the library?

If anyone is interest in this I can create a PR to add functionality + documentation to do this.

app.mount_static_files_directory(
  path="/static",
  directory="static",
  name="static",
)

Thanks