Ivan Fioravanti - 405 - Sep 11, 2014

ServiceStack Authentication
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We’re facing an issue with HasRole method returning false using Redis as ICacheClient and we’re going crazy with this one.

Everything works properly with InMemoryCache. We are using a CustomUserSession, with MongoDB as IUserAuthRepository. 

Any clues?

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Ivan Fioravanti:

Debugging we’ve seen that at line 38 of RequiredRoleAttribute.cs:

var session = req.GetSession();

session is retrieved from the ASPNET request, it’s not null, but it’s empty. while in Redis cache the session is full with all data.

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Ivan Fioravanti:

I debugged this and I found something strange: problem lies in following line of GetSession in ServiceExtension.

var session = cache.Get<IAuthSession>(SessionFeature.GetSessionKey(sessionId));

using Redis as Cache is null, but if I call:

var session = cache.Get<AuthUserSession>(SessionFeature.GetSessionKey(sessionId));

session is correctly deserialized from Redis and everything works properly.

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Ivan Fioravanti:

SOLVED!!!
I added: 
JsConfig<MyCustomAuthUserSession>.IncludeTypeInfo = true;

The strange thing is that I had:
ServiceStack.Text.JsConfig.ExcludeTypeInfo = false;

So it should have work in any case… strange. But it works!!!

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Odd, it should be working by default. What other JsConfig settings do you have? Also does your MyCustomAuthUserSession DTO have [DataMember] properties, e.g:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Sessions#using-typed-sessions-in-servicestack

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Ivan Fioravanti:

I had:
JsConfig.EmitCamelCaseNames = true;

And DataMember attribute was there.

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Weird, I’ve got tests working in each Cache Provider for custom auth sessions: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/master/tests/ServiceStack.Server.Tests/Properties/CacheClientTests.cs#L242
I’ll see if I can repro in a test project using a RedisClient Cache, otherwise will need a repro test case.

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Still works in test integration project, I’ve added some test Session services using Redis CacheClient in this commit: https://github.com/ServiceStack/Test/commit/d55f132aeb7a0d069994e93a7b9891f7593b99c1

Everything seems to be working fine:
Url to get the session is:
http://test.servicestack.net/session
Url to login:
http://test.servicestack.net/login
Url to edit session:
http://test.servicestack.net/session/edit/ANYTEXT