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ServiceStack 4 Cookbook

ServiceStack 4 Cookbook

By : Hodgson
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ServiceStack 4 Cookbook

ServiceStack 4 Cookbook

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By: Hodgson

Overview of this book

If you are a .NET developer who is looking for a simpler way to build services, this is the book for you. It will show you how to write fast, maintainable APIs that are a pleasure to use and maintain starting from the database to the client and everything in-between.
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Migrating users from another system by overriding ServiceStack's credential-based authentication


If you're creating a new system and you want your users to move to the new system, it might make sense to want to move their authenticate information to your new system so that in the future, you don't have to maintain both systems. Ideally, we can make this as seamless as possible for end users. In this recipe, we will look at overriding CredentialAuthProvider to give it custom behavior, which in this case is to check whether the credentials are valid for a legacy system and migrate the user to the new one.

Getting ready

In this example, we are going to extend ServiceStack's TextFileSettings class to mock our external authentication system. This new class is just illustrating the custom behavior inside the TryAuthenticate method, which will be our new custom credential-based authentication provider, as follows:

public class UserMigrationStorage : TextFileSettings
{
    public UserMigrationStorage...
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