RIAServices – Proudly using SessionState within your DomainServices

 

 

As mentioned in my previous article How to build huge dynamically loading cross platform Silverlight Business Applications, I’m experimenting with the idea of a hybrid web application that has some parts implement as webforms, others as Silverlight.

A problem I encountered was that RIAService calls did not necessarily access to the same information as my webforms did.  An example is “SessionState”.  In the case of my company’s framework, the authentication system must be invoked prior to anything else within my domain services.  In addition the authentication system needs access to SessionState.

 

To do this I thought I could inherit from DataServiceFactory and add what I needed.  Unfortunately the class is marked as not inheritable.  The way around this is to encapsulate the class.

In the code sample below you can see an implementation of MyDataServiceFactory that encapsulates DataServiceFactory and returns an encapsulated HttpHandler that flags to ASP.Net that sessionstate is needed.

 

Imports System.Web
Imports System.Web.SessionState

Public Class MyDataServiceFactory
    Implements IHttpHandlerFactory
    Private moHandlerFactory As IHttpHandlerFactory

    Public Sub New()
        moHandlerFactory = New System.Web.Ria.DataServiceFactory
    End Sub

    Public Function GetHandler(ByVal context As System.Web.HttpContext, ByVal requestType As String, ByVal url As String, ByVal pathTranslated As String) As System.Web.IHttpHandler Implements System.Web.IHttpHandlerFactory.GetHandler

        Return New MyDataServicesHandler(moHandlerFactory.GetHandler(context, requestType, url, pathTranslated))

    End Function

    Public Sub ReleaseHandler(ByVal handler As System.Web.IHttpHandler) Implements System.Web.IHttpHandlerFactory.ReleaseHandler
        moHandlerFactory.ReleaseHandler(DirectCast(handler, MyDataServicesHandler).InnerHandler)
    End Sub
End Class
Public Class MyDataServicesHandler
    Implements IHttpHandler
    Implements IRequiresSessionState ' Let ASP.Net know that you need to use the session object

    Public InnerHandler As IHttpHandler
    Public Sub New(ByVal handlerToWrap As IHttpHandler)
        InnerHandler = handlerToWrap
    End Sub
    Public ReadOnly Property IsReusable() As Boolean Implements System.Web.IHttpHandler.IsReusable
        Get
            Return InnerHandler.IsReusable
        End Get
    End Property

    Public Sub ProcessRequest(ByVal context As System.Web.HttpContext) Implements System.Web.IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest
        ' You can access context.Session here if you want to...
        InnerHandler.ProcessRequest(context)
    End Sub
End Class

 

Of course to use this, you need to modify the web.config and change the two references to DataServicesFactory to point to your new class instead, which should be hosted in it’s own class library.

 

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