Access AuthSession on client after authentication on ServiceStack Services - asp.net-mvc

Question

I'm a little confused with the session documentation, so let's say i'm already send the authentication data from the client side and retrieve the ss-id and ss-pid like this:
var client = new JsonServiceClient("http://somewhere/theAPI/");
var response = client.Post(new Auth() {UserName = "myuser", Password = "password123"});
var myCookie= client.CookieContainer.GetCookies(new Uri("http://somewhere/theAPI"));
how I can retrieve the AuthSession information just like the surname, email, etc from the servicestack? do i need it store somewhere else like in memcache server, and retrieve from that?
or I need to build my authentication in the client side? and just use the API to retrieve the data?

Answer 1

Assuming you've already created a custom AuthUserSession, for example:
/// <summary>
/// Create your own strong-typed Custom AuthUserSession where you can add additional AuthUserSession
/// fields required for your application. The base class is automatically populated with
/// User Data as and when they authenticate with your application.
/// </summary>
public class CustomUserSession : AuthUserSession {
public string CustomId { get; set; }
}
And you've registered your custom AuthUserSession when configuring the AuthFeature plugin, like so:
public override void Configure(Container container)
{
//Register all Authentication methods you want to enable for this web app.
Plugins.Add(new AuthFeature(
() => new CustomUserSession(), //Use your own typed Custom UserSession type
new IAuthProvider[] {
new CredentialsAuthProvider(), //HTML Form post of UserName/Password credentials
// and any other auth providers you need
}));
}
Then you can expose this data to the client in a service you create. SocialBotstrapApi provides access to the current session information on the server like this: Use it as a model to create a UserAuth service that returns the information for just the current user.
public abstract class AppServiceBase : Service {
private CustomUserSession userSession;
protected CustomUserSession UserSession {
get {
return base.SessionAs<CustomUserSession>();
}
}
}
[Route("/userauths")]
public class UserAuths
{
public int[] Ids { get; set; }
}
public class UserAuthsResponse
{
public UserAuthsResponse()
{
this.Users = new List<User>();
this.UserAuths = new List<UserAuth>();
this.OAuthProviders = new List<UserOAuthProvider>();
}
public CustomUserSession UserSession { get; set; }
public List<User> Users { get; set; }
public List<UserAuth> UserAuths { get; set; }
public List<UserOAuthProvider> OAuthProviders { get; set; }
}
//Implementation. Can be called via any endpoint or format, see: http://servicestack.net/ServiceStack.Hello/
public class UserAuthsService : AppServiceBase
{
public object Any(UserAuths request)
{
var response = new UserAuthsResponse {
UserSession = base.UserSession,
Users = Db.Select<User>(),
UserAuths = Db.Select<UserAuth>(),
OAuthProviders = Db.Select<UserOAuthProvider>(),
};
response.UserAuths.ForEach(x => x.PasswordHash = "[Redacted]");
response.OAuthProviders.ForEach(x =>
x.AccessToken = x.AccessTokenSecret = x.RequestTokenSecret = "[Redacted]");
if (response.UserSession != null)
response.UserSession.ProviderOAuthAccess.ForEach(x =>
x.AccessToken = x.AccessTokenSecret = x.RequestTokenSecret = "[Redacted]");
return response;
}
}