Daniel Irvine
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This issue came up at work today and I wanted to briefly discuss it. We’re adding a new feature that would ensure a 100% validity of objects in a certain data store. I’ll describe the scenario: Suppose you have an object A in the data store and you want to ask the question is A [...]
There’s a problem with 401 Unauthorized, the HTTP status code for authentication errors. And that’s just it: it’s for authentication, not authorization. Receiving a 401 response is the server telling you, “you aren’t authenticated–either not authenticated at all or authenticated incorrectly–but please reauthenticate and try again.” To help you out, it will always include a [...]
Over the next few posts I’ll discuss how I’ve implemented a variety of HTTP and REST features using OpenRasta. Being somewhat of an OpenRasta novice I can’t say that I’ve solved these problems in the best way possible, or even with total correctness, but the solutions work well enough.
For those new to OpenRasta, the [...]
I was having trouble today with some OpenRasta tests using the InMemoryHost. The tests passed when run in isolation (i.e. together but as their own unit), but when run in the context of the entire test assembly the tests failed with this exception being thrown:
TestFixture failed: System.TypeInitializationException : The type initializer for ‘OpenRasta.Hosting.HostManager’ threw [...]
OpenRasta has the concept on an OperationInterceptor, a special class that runs before and after your handler method is called. It’s useful when you have a cross-cutting action that should apply across all your resources. A couple of typical examples are:
Validation, when you need to validate the incoming resource object on a Put or [...]
Disclaimer: I’m an OpenRasta newbie so what follows may be completely wrong, but it appears to work for me.
Here’s a common feature of web services: when an error occurs during processing of a server request, the server should return a “nice” error message to the client. It goes without saying that the appropriate HTTP [...]
This week I’ve been spending time learning OpenRasta, a .NET framework that’s best described as a super-awesome WCF replacement. In fact it kicks WCF’s butt.
OpenRasta helps you write RESTful web services with very little effort. Not just the implementation but your tests too. Unfortunately the testability of OpenRasta-based systems is something of a [...]
Just a quick tip for all OpenWrap users: you can view your resolved assemblies from inside Visual Studio using Class View (Ctrl+Shift+C).
I’ve always preferred the Solution Explorer and so I missed this little trick until recently, coming across it by chance. It’s a great way to check that you’re not accidentally referencing too [...]
After a long wait, my Cyclescheme voucher finally arrived in my postbox. I marched into the nearest bicycle shop and purchased a Giant Defy 2 (2009-2010 Model) plus helmet, D-Lock, cycling cap and lights for the princely sum of £700. The bike is an “old” model–old in the sense that there’s a new [...]
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time chastising UI developers for not following standard UI guidelines, like the one which says dialog boxes should have a default button.
Unfortunately, the Silverlight team at Microsoft seemingly don’t know about that. Yes, shockingly, Button.IsDefault does not exist in Silverlight.
If you get stuck because [...]
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- After two weeks of dev, finally deployed my OpenRasta app on IIS. Feeling so pleased with myself!
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