I am very new with orleans and trying to grasp everything with grains and so forth.
What i got is that in my startup.cs file i add the SignalR like this
public IServiceProvider ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
Program.WriteConsole("Adding singletons");
services
.AddSingleton(achievementManager)
.AddMvc();
services.AddSingleton(SignalRClient);
return services.BuildServiceProvider();
}
So far everything is fine i can start my host/application and it connects to SignalR as it should. But what i cant wrap my head around is how do i get this down to my grain? if i had a controller i would simply send it down in the constructor on startup but how do i do this with a grain? Or can i even do it like this. Any guidance is appreciated.
In the grain then i want to do something like this
[StatelessWorker]
[Reentrant]
public class NotifierGrain : Grain, INotifierGrain
{
private HubConnection SignalRClient { get; }
public NotifierGrain(HubConnection signalRClient)
{
SignalRClient = signalRClient;
SignalRClient.SendAsync(Methods.RegisterService, Constants.ServiceName);
}
public Task NotifyClients(object message, MessageType type)
{
var registerUserNotification = (RegisterUserNotificationModel)message;
SignalRClient.SendAsync(Methods.RegisterUserToMultipleGroups, registerUserNotification.UserId, registerUserNotification.InfoIds);
}
return Task.CompletedTask;
}
Then i try to call the Notify method from another grain like this
var notifier = GrainFactory.GetGrain<INotifierGrain>(Constants.NotifierGrain);
await notifier.NotifyClients(notification, MessageType.RegisterUser);
But trying to do this ends up with an error like this
InvalidOperationException: Unable to resolve service for type 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Client.HubConnection' while attempting to activate 'User.Implementation.Grains.NotifierGrain'.
Orleans supports constructor injection, so you can inject the SignalRClient into your grain constructor. In your code you are already correctly registering the client using services.AddSingleton(SignalRClient), so I will focus on how to inject the type into your grain.
I do not know what the type the SignalR client object is, but in this example I assume that the type is "SignalRClient":
[StatelessWorker]
[Reentrant]
public class NotifierGrain : Grain, INotifierGrain
{
private readonly SignalRClient signalRClient;
public NotifierGrain(SignalRClient signalRClient)
{
this.signalRClient = signalRClient;
}
public async Task NotifyClients(object message, MessageType type)
{
var registerUserNotification = (RegisterUserNotificationModel)message;
await this.signalRClient.SendAsync(
MessageMethods.RegisterUserToMultipleGroups,
registerUserNotification.UserId,
registerUserNotification.infoIds);
}
}
Depends how you're thinking to use SignalR Server, if you're going to host your SignalR server with Microsoft Orleans for sure you need to have backplane to handle the Orleans cluster communications.
You can use SignalR Orleans which has everything done out of the box for you :)
Also if you need a reactive SignalR library for the frontend, you can use Sketch7 SignalR Client
PS I m one of the authors of both libraries.
I've been pulling my hair out over this. Anytime a user registration email is sent out via my windows service (background task), I get an "Invalid link".
My setup
I'm using Hangfire as a windows service on our development server. This is where the problematic GenerateEmailConfirmationToken call is happening. It's in a completely different context, outside of the ASP.NET pipeline. So I have setup machineKey values to correspond with that in the web.config of the MVC application:
In the app.config of the Windows Service Console project, which transforms to MyApp.exe.config, I have a machineKey element
In the MVC 5 project - I have a machineKey element that matches the MyApp.exe.config machineKey element.
I've verified that BOTH of these have the same machine key element data.
The Problem
When I generate a user using the ASP.NET MVC context and pipeline (IE without going through the Hangfire Background job processing), the link works fine.
When I use the background job processor, I always get invalid link. I'm all out of ideas here.
Why is this happening? Is it because the token is being generated in a different thread? How do I get around this?
Relevant code for the various projects
IoC Bootstrapping
Gets called by both applications (Windows Service and MVC Web App)
container.Register<IUserTokenProvider<AppUser, int>>(() => DataProtector.TokenProvider, defaultAppLifeStyle);
DataProtector.cs
public class DataProtector
{
public static IDataProtectionProvider DataProtectionProvider { get; set; }
public static DataProtectorTokenProvider<AppUser, int> TokenProvider { get; set; }
static DataProtector()
{
DataProtectionProvider = new MachineKeyProtectionProvider();
TokenProvider = new DataProtectorTokenProvider<AppUser, int>(DataProtectionProvider.Create("Confirmation", "ResetPassword"));
}
}
Things I've Tried
Using a DpapiDataProtectionProvider
Custom MachineKeyProtectionProvider from Generating reset password token does not work in Azure Website
The MachineKeyProtectionProvider.cs code is exactly as the linked post above.
I've also tried other purposes like "YourMom" and "AllYourTokensAreBelongToMe" to no avail. Single purposes, multiple purposes - it doesn't matter - none work.
I'm also calling HttpUtility.UrlEncode(code) on the code that gets generated in both places (Controller and Background Job).
Solution
igor got it right, except it was not a code issue. It was because of a rogue service picking up the job, which had a different machine key. I had been staring at the problem so long that I did not see a second service running.
As I understand your problem there are 2 possible places where failure could occur.
1. MachineKey
It could be that the MachineKey itself is not producing a consistent value between your 2 applications. This can happen if your machineKey in the .config file is not the same in both applications (I did read that you checked it but a simple type-o, added space, added to the wrong parent element, etc. could lead to this behavior.). This can be easily tested to rule it out as a point of failure. Also the behavior might be different depending on the referenced .net framework, MachineKey.Protect
The configuration settings that are required for the MachineKeyCompatibilityMode.Framework45 option are required for this method even if the MachineKeySection.CompatibilityMode property is not set to the Framework45 option.
I created a random key pair for testing and using this key I generated a test value I assigned to variable validValue below in the code. If you copy/paste the following section into your web.config and app.config the Unprotect of that keyvalue will work.
web.config / app.config
<system.web>
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.6.1"/>
<machineKey decryption="AES" decryptionKey="9ADCFD68D2089D79A941F9B8D06170E4F6C96E9CE996449C931F7976EF3DD209" validation="HMACSHA256" validationKey="98D92CC1E5688DB544A1A5EF98474F3758C6819A93CC97E8684FFC7ED163C445852628E36465DB4E93BB1F8E12D69D0A99ED55639938B259D0216BD2DF4F9E73" />
</system.web>
Service Application Test
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// should evaluate to SomeTestString
const string validValue = "03AD03E75A76CF13FDDA57425E9D362BA0FF852C4A052FD94F641B73CEBD3AC8B2F253BB45550379E44A4938371264BFA590F9E68E59DB57A9A4EB5B8B1CCC59";
var unprotected2 = MachineWrapper.Unprotect(validValue);
}
}
Mvc Controller (or Web Api controller) Test
public class WebTestController : Controller
{
// GET: WebTest
public ActionResult Index()
{
// should evaluate to SomeTestString
const string validValue = "03AD03E75A76CF13FDDA57425E9D362BA0FF852C4A052FD94F641B73CEBD3AC8B2F253BB45550379E44A4938371264BFA590F9E68E59DB57A9A4EB5B8B1CCC59";
var unprotected2 = MachineWrapper.Unprotect(validValue);
return View(unprotected2);
}
}
Common Code
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Security;
namespace Common
{
public class MachineWrapper
{
public static string Protect()
{
var testData = "SomeTestString";
return BytesToString(MachineKey.Protect(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(testData), "PasswordSafe"));
}
public static string Unprotect(string data)
{
var bytes = StringToBytes(data);
var result = MachineKey.Unprotect(bytes, "PasswordSafe");
return System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(result);
}
public static byte[] StringToBytes(string hex)
{
return Enumerable.Range(0, hex.Length)
.Where(x => x % 2 == 0)
.Select(x => Convert.ToByte(hex.Substring(x, 2), 16))
.ToArray();
}
public static string BytesToString(byte[] bytes)
{
var hex = new StringBuilder(bytes.Length * 2);
foreach (byte b in bytes)
hex.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", b);
return hex.ToString().ToUpper();
}
}
}
If this passes both Console and the Web Application will get the same value and not throw a CryptographicException message Error occurred during a cryptographic operation. If you want to test with your own keys just run Protect from the common MachineWrapper class and record the value and re-execute for both apps.
2. UserManager uses Wrong Type
I would start with the previous section BUT the other failure point is that your custom machine key provider is not being used by the Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.UserManager. So here are some questions/action items that can help you figure out why this is happening:
Is container.Register the Unity IoC framework or are you using another framework?
Are you sure that your Di framework is also injecting that instance in the Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.UserManager in both the Service application as well as the Web application?
Have put a break point in public byte[] Protect of your MachineKeyDataProtector class to see if this is called in both the Service application as well as the Web application?
From examples I have seen so far (including the one you posted with the custom MachineKey solution) you need to manually bootstrap the type during application startup but then again I have not ever tried to hook into the Identity framework to replace this component using DI.
If you look at the default Visual Studio template code that is provided when you create a new MVC application the code file App_Start\IdentityConfig.cs would be the place to add this new provider.
Method:
public static ApplicationUserManager Create(IdentityFactoryOptions<ApplicationUserManager> options, IOwinContext context)
Replace
var dataProtectionProvider = options.DataProtectionProvider;
if (dataProtectionProvider != null)
{
manager.UserTokenProvider = new DataProtectorTokenProvider<ApplicationUser>(dataProtectionProvider.Create("ASP.NET Identity"));
}
With this
var provider = new MachineKeyProtectionProvider();
manager.UserTokenProvider = new DataProtectorTokenProvider<ApplicationUser>(provider.Create("ResetPasswordPurpose"));
And this has to be configured for both applications if you are not using a common library where this is configured.
I'm using ASP.Net Identity and in my Web Api project in its AccountController I want to send verification email to new users. I have plugged my email service using MVCMailer to the ASP.Net identity.
public class EmailService : IIdentityMessageService
{
private readonly IUserMailer _userMailer;
public EmailService(IUserMailer userMailer)
{
_userMailer = userMailer;
}
public Task SendAsync(IdentityMessage message)
{
_userMailer.DeliverMessage(message.Body);
// Plug in your email service here to send an email.
return Task.FromResult(0);
}
}
#
public class UserMailer : MailerBase, IUserMailer
{
public UserMailer()
{
MasterName = "_Layout";
}
public virtual IMailMessage DeliverMessage(string message)
{
var mailMessage = new MailMessage();
mailMessage.To.Add("hashemp206#yahoo.com");
mailMessage.Subject = "Welcome";
//ViewData = new System.Web.Mvc.ViewDataDictionary(model);
PopulateBody(mailMessage, "Welcome");
mailMessage.Send();
return mailMessage;
}
my custom ASP.Net Identiy is in a seperate project. and as you see above EmailService is dependent on IUserMailer interface. and IUserMailer implementation is in another project MyProject.MVCMailer (this project is an MVC project)
in my dependency resolver in web api I try to resolve this dependency
container.Bind<IUserMailer>().To<UserMailer>().InSingletonScope();
but MVCMailer has a dependency to System.Web.MVC and ninject complain for this reference to initialize USerMailer.
so the problem is here I dont want to add System.Web.MVC to my Web Api project.
how can I use MVCMailer without referencing to System.Web.MVC in my web api project?
I'm a little confused on what you're trying to do but if I'm understanding you correctly you are trying to call your API and then send out an email. Since you are not passing anything from the API into the email (and even if you were) just call your API and return a response object. Once the MVC project recieves the response send the email from the MVC project. Your API should know about objects in your MVC project unless there is a really good reason. Think of them (your MVC and API projects) as two separate entities all together that don't know about each other.
I have a form:
#using (Html.BeginForm(new { ReturnUrl = ViewBag.ReturnUrl })) {
#Html.AntiForgeryToken()
#Html.ValidationSummary()...
and action:
[HttpPost]
[AllowAnonymous]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Login(LoginModel model, string returnUrl, string City)
{
}
occasionally (once a week), I get the error:
The anti-forgery token could not be decrypted. If this application is
hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that all machines are running
the same version of ASP.NET Web Pages and that the configuration
specifies explicit encryption and validation keys. AutoGenerate cannot
be used in a cluster.
i try add to webconfig:
<machineKey validationKey="AutoGenerate,IsolateApps"
decryptionKey="AutoGenerate,IsolateApps" />
but the error still appears occasionally
I noticed this error occurs, for example when a person came from one computer and then trying another computer
Or sometimes an auto value set with incorrect data type like bool to integer to the form field by any jQuery code please also check it.
I just received this error as well and, in my case, it was caused by the anti-forgery token being applied twice in the same form. The second instance was coming from a partial view so wasn't immediately obvious.
validationKey="AutoGenerate"
This tells ASP.NET to generate a new encryption key for use in encrypting things like authentication tickets and antiforgery tokens every time the application starts up. If you received a request that used a different key (prior to a restart for instance) to encrypt items of the request (e.g. authenication cookies) that this exception can occur.
If you move away from "AutoGenerate" and specify it (the encryption key) specifically, requests that depend on that key to be decrypted correctly and validation will work from app restart to restart. For example:
<machineKey
validationKey="21F090935F6E49C2C797F69BBAAD8402ABD2EE0B667A8B44EA7DD4374267A75D7
AD972A119482D15A4127461DB1DC347C1A63AE5F1CCFAACFF1B72A7F0A281B"
decryptionKey="ABAA84D7EC4BB56D75D217CECFFB9628809BDB8BF91CFCD64568A145BE59719F"
validation="SHA1"
decryption="AES"
/>
You can read to your heart's content at MSDN page: How To: Configure MachineKey in ASP.NET
Just generate <machineKey .../> tag from a link for your framework version and insert into <system.web><system.web/> in Web.config if it does not exist.
Hope this helps.
If you get here from google for your own developer machine showing this error, try to clear cookies in the browser. Clear Browser cookies worked for me.
in asp.net Core you should set Data Protection system.I test in Asp.Net Core 2.1 or higher.
there are multi way to do this and you can find more information at Configure Data Protection and Replace the ASP.NET machineKey in ASP.NET Core and key storage providers.
first way: Local file (easy implementation)
startup.cs content:
public class Startup
{
public Startup(IConfiguration configuration, IWebHostEnvironment webHostEnvironment)
{
Configuration = configuration;
WebHostEnvironment = webHostEnvironment;
}
public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }
public IWebHostEnvironment WebHostEnvironment { get; }
// This method gets called by the runtime.
// Use this method to add services to the container.
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
// .... Add your services like :
// services.AddControllersWithViews();
// services.AddRazorPages();
// ----- finally Add this DataProtection -----
var keysFolder = Path.Combine(WebHostEnvironment.ContentRootPath, "temp-keys");
services.AddDataProtection()
.SetApplicationName("Your_Project_Name")
.PersistKeysToFileSystem(new DirectoryInfo(keysFolder))
.SetDefaultKeyLifetime(TimeSpan.FromDays(14));
}
}
second way: save to db
The Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.EntityFrameworkCore NuGet
package must be added to the project file
Add MyKeysConnection ConnectionString to your projects
ConnectionStrings in appsettings.json > ConnectionStrings >
MyKeysConnection.
Add MyKeysContext class to your project.
MyKeysContext.cs content:
public class MyKeysContext : DbContext, IDataProtectionKeyContext
{
// A recommended constructor overload when using EF Core
// with dependency injection.
public MyKeysContext(DbContextOptions<MyKeysContext> options)
: base(options) { }
// This maps to the table that stores keys.
public DbSet<DataProtectionKey> DataProtectionKeys { get; set; }
}
startup.cs content:
public class Startup
{
public Startup(IConfiguration configuration)
{
Configuration = configuration;
}
public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }
// This method gets called by the runtime.
// Use this method to add services to the container.
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
// ----- Add this DataProtection -----
// Add a DbContext to store your Database Keys
services.AddDbContext<MyKeysContext>(options =>
options.UseSqlServer(Configuration.GetConnectionString("MyKeysConnection")));
// using Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection;
services.AddDataProtection()
.PersistKeysToDbContext<MyKeysContext>();
// .... Add your services like :
// services.AddControllersWithViews();
// services.AddRazorPages();
}
}
If you use Kubernetes and have more than one pod for your app this will most likely cause the request validation to fail because the pod that generates the RequestValidationToken is not necessarily the pod that will validate the token when POSTing back to your application. The fix should be to configure your nginx-controller or whatever ingress resource you are using and tell it to load balance so that each client uses one pod for all communication.
Update: I managed to fix it by adding the following annotations to my ingress:
https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/examples/affinity/cookie/
Name Description Values
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/affinity Sets the affinity type string (in NGINX only cookie is possible
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-name Name of the cookie that will be used string (default to INGRESSCOOKIE)
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-hash Type of hash that will be used in cookie value sha1/md5/index
I ran into this issue in an area of code where I had a view calling a partial view, however, instead of returning a partial view, I was returning a view.
I changed:
return View(index);
to
return PartialView(index);
in my control and that fixed my problem.
I got this error on .NET Core 2.1. I fixed it by adding the Data Protection service in Startup:
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services.AddDataProtection();
....
}
you are calling more than one the #Html.AntiForgeryToken() in your view
I get this error when the page is old ('stale'). A refresh of the token via a page reload resolves my problem. There seems to be some timeout period.
I found a very interesting workaround for this problem, at least in my case. My view was dynamically loading partial views with forms in a div using ajax, all within another form. the master form submits no problem, and one of the partials works but the other doesn't. The ONLY difference between the partial views was at the end of the one that was working was an empty script tag
<script type="text/javascript">
</script>
I removed it and sure enough I got the error. I added an empty script tag to the other partial view and dog gone it, it works! I know it's not the cleanest... but as far as speed and overhead goes...
I know I'm a little late to the party, but I wanted to add another possible solution to this issue. I ran into the same problem on an MVC application I had. The code did not change for the better part of a year and all of the sudden we started receiving these kinds of error messages from the application.
We didn't have multiple instances of the anti-forgery token being applied to the view twice.
We had the machine key set at the global level to Autogenerate because of STIG requirements.
It was exasperating until I got part of the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2207535/195350:
If your MachineKey is set to AutoGenerate, then your verification
tokens, etc won't survive an application restart - ASP.NET will
generate a new key when it starts up, and then won't be able to
decrypt the tokens correctly.
The issue was that the private memory limit of the application pool was being exceeded. This caused a recycle and, therefore, invalidated the keys for the tokens included in the form. Increasing the private memory limit for the application pool appears to have resolved the issue.
My fix for this was to get the cookie and token values like this:
AntiForgery.GetTokens(null, out var cookieToken, out var formToken);
For those getting this error on Google AppEngine or Google Cloud Run, you'll need to configure your ASP.NET Core website's Data Protection.
The documentation from the Google team is easy to follow and works.
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/dotnet/application-security#aspnet_core_data_protection_provider
A general overview from the Microsoft docs can be found here:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/dotnet/application-security#aspnet_core_data_protection_provider
Note that you may also find you're having to login over and over, and other quirky stuff going on. This is all because Google Cloud doesn't do sticky sessions like Azure does and you're actually hitting different instances with each request.
Other errors logged, include:
Identity.Application was not authenticated. Failure message: Unprotect ticket failed
I have a need to use a .net client to connect to a Signalr enabled application.
The client class needs to be a singleton and loaded for use globally.
I want to know what is the best technique for using singletons globally within an MVC application.
I have been looking into using the application start to get the singleton, where I keep it is a mystery to me.
The HUB cant be a singleton by design SignalR creates a instance for each incoming request.
On the client I would use a IoC framework and register the client as a Singleton, this way eachb module that tries to get it will get the same instance.
I have made a little lib that takes care of all this for you, install server like
Install-Package SignalR.EventAggregatorProxy
Read here for the few steps to hook it up, it needs a back plate service bus or event aggregator to be able to pickup your events
https://github.com/AndersMalmgren/SignalR.EventAggregatorProxy/wiki
Once configured install the .NET client in your client project with
Install-Package SignalR.EventAggregatorProxy.Client.DotNet
See here how to set it up
https://github.com/AndersMalmgren/SignalR.EventAggregatorProxy/wiki/.NET-Client
Once configured any class can register itself as a listener like
public class MyViewModel : IHandle<MyEvent>
{
public MyViewModel(IEventAggregator eventAggregator)
{
eventAggregator.Subscribe(this);
}
public void Handle(MyEvent message)
{
//Act on MyEvent
}
}
On the server you can send a message from outside the hub to all connected clients using the GetClients() method like this:
public MyHub : Hub
{
// (Your hub methods)
public static IHubConnectionContext GetClients()
{
return GlobalHost.ConnectionManager.GetHubContext<MyHub>().Clients;
}
}
You can use it like this:
MyHub.GetClients().All.SomeMethod();