To use your own ModelMetadataProvider you normally set it in the global.asax.
I'm using MVC Turbine and I need to inject a dependency into my ModelMetadataProvider as well.
Something like this:
ModelMetadataProviders.Current = new MyModelMetadataProvider(ISomeDependency);
How is this best accomplished with MVC Turbine?
The best place to put these pieces is to override the Startup method within your web application (the type that inherits from TurbineApplication). We're currently working on making these MVC2 features easier in v2.2 by introducing a ModelMetadataBlade that will do all the wiring up for you to the ModelMetadataProvider.Current property.
So all you'll have to do is register MyModelMetadataProvider with the container like so
container.Register<ModelMetadataProvider, MyModelMetadataProvider>()
then MVC Turbine will do the rest for you. To get an idea of what I'm talking about, checkout the way we're wiring up ModelValidatorProviders. The ModelValidatorBlade asks the ServiceLocator for all the registered ModelValidatorProvider and wires them up with the runtime.
If you have any feedback or ideas, could you post them to the Google Group? Trying to keep these things organized :)
Thanks!
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I have created a webapi 2 service that I need to secure. I am trying to use the Individual Accounts in VS2013 but I after much research I cannot figure out how to:
a. Customize the User model with my own properties (no such class exists in template)
b. Get access to User and Role contexts
I tried using the nuget's EFMembershipCodeFirst package but I noticed its deprecated, this package provided access to the required classes (User/Role).
There are plenty of examples for Mvc but I'm using Angularjs as the front end.
Does anyone know how I can customize the User model that vs2013 Individual Accounts template creates? Maybe I'm missing something obvious? I'm a bit of newbie when it comes to securing webAPIs. Thanks
Edit: UserManage.Create() only takes a password and a username, I need override it to also accept myUniqueId. Any thoughts?
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The classes you should concentrate on are the IdentityUser, UserManager and RoleManager classes.
This example shows you how you can use them.
Because your using AngularJS an option would be to create an ASP.NET Web API backend.
The official documentation is a good starting point to become familiar with ASP.NET Identity.
As per #Horizon_Net's suggestion, I created a custom class that derived from IdentityUser, but used the following as guidance:
Here
I'm trying to switch to ZF2 from ZF1. From what I've read about the new Zend\MVC\Router and the way it is configured, it looks like every single location should be described in ['router']['routes'] config key.
Is that really so? In ZF1 you could build a complex app with multiple locations and not have a single route described. I find it hard to believe, hopefully I am missing something.
Thanks!
The routing works in a similar way to ZF1. The config in the skeleton app includes a few example routes, one of which is a /:controller/:action route (line 42). So this is your out-of-the-box ZF1 style MVC route.
In ZF1, the framework adds a /:controller/:action and /:module/:controller/:action route for you (which you had to remove if you had some custom requirements). In ZF2 you have to define the routes yourself, but if you want the same setup as ZF1, the skeleton app setup works in the same way, just without the module prefix.
i would like to go for a step-by-step migration of my existing "serverside rendered" webapplications to a more "cientside rendered" approach.
my preferred starting-point would be to change the existing data-handling layer towards an ajax style approach using a rest http-api to handle put/post/get/delete requests.
so my question is...
is there an appropriate way to use the collection/model concept of backbone.js to my existing webapplication, without having to use routing/controller/views/templates?
i can add here, that i already have a working rest-httpapi using slimframework. and i would like to use backbone.js model/collections to fetch/save data. but html-rendering and event-binding should be out of backbone.js' responsibility for the moment.
thanks
i finally ended up with the "whole-stack" approach. after many hours of elab, there is no doubt to me, that an isolated usage of models without backbone-views and controllers is more painfull, than it helps.
thanks for all input.
I see a lot of articles and posts on how to create a custom MembershipProvider, but haven't found any explanation as to why I must/should use it in my MVC2 web app. Apart from "Hey, security is hard!", what are critical parts of the whole MembershipProvider subsystem that I should know about that I don't, because I've only read about how to override parts of it? Is there some "behind the scenes magic" that I don't see and will have to implement myself? Is there some attribute or other piece of functionality that will trip over itself without a properly setup MembershipProvider?
I am building a web app, using a DDD approach, so the way I see it, I have a User entity and a Group entity. I don't need to customize ValidateUser() under the provider; I can just have it as a method on my User entity. I have to have a User object anyways, to implement things not under the MemebrshipProvider?
So, what gives? :)
No, you don't need it. I have sites that use it and sites that don't. One reason to use it is that plumbing is already there for it in ASP.NET and you can easily implement authentication by simply providing the proper configuration items (and setting up the DB or AD or whatever).
A RoleProvider, on the other hand, comes in very handy when using the built-in AuthorizeAttributes and derivatives. Implementing a RoleProvider will save you a fair amount of custom programming on the authorization side.
I'm in the middle of converting an existing app built on top of zend framework to work as a plugin within wordpress as opposed to the standalone application it currently is.
I've never really used zend so I've had to learn about it in order to know where to begin. I must say that at first I didn't think much of zend, but it's funny because the more I understand how it works the more I keep questioning why I'd want to remove dependency when it's a clearly well thought out framework. Then I'm reminded that it's because of wordpress.
Now I already know there are WP plugins to make zend play nice with WP. In fact I'm aleady using a zend framework plugin just to get the app functional within the WP admin area which is allowing me to review code, modify code, refresh the browser, review changes, debug code, again and again.
Anyway, I really don't have a specific question but instead I'm looking for advice from any zend masters out there to offer advice on how to best go about a task like this one.... so any comments, advice, examples or suggestions would be super.
One area I'm a little stuck on is converting parts of zend->db calls to work as wpdb calls instead... specifically the zend->db->select.... not sure what to do with that one.
Also on how to handle all the URL routing with automatic calls to "whatverAction" within thier respective controllers files.
Any help would be great! Thanks
You're probably facing an uphill battle trying to get some of the more major components of ZF to work in harmony with Wordpress. It sounds like you've got a full MVC app that you're trying to integrate into a second app that has very different architecture.
You probably want to think about which components handle which responsibilities. Wordpress has it's own routing and controller system that revolves around posts, pages and 'The Loop'. This is entirely different from Zend's Action Controllers and routing system.
It's possible you could write a WP hook to evaluate every incoming request and decide if it should be handled by WP or a ZF controller. However, it is doubtful you would be able to replace WP's routing system outright with ZF's or vice versa.
Same idea, where Zend_Db is concerned. There's nothing stopping you from using Zend_Db to access Wordpress's database, but trying to somehow convert or adapt Zend_db calls into wpdb calls sounds painful. If you have a large model layer, you probably want to hang on to it, and find a way to translate data from those models into the posts/pages conventions that Wordpress uses.
Personally, I would use ZF to build a robust business layer that can be queried through an object model via a Wordpress plugin, and then rely on Wordpress to do the routing and handle the views.
Zend_DB_Select is simple SQL query (but created using objects) that can be used like any other query. Just turn it into string. Ex.:
mysql_query((string)$zendDbSelectObject);