Connect Appwrite auth with ASP.NET Core 7 - authentication

Question

I am trying to authenticate an Appwrite user with my ASP.NET Core 7 Web API. In the past, I used Firebase for this with which I was able to implement the function as following:
private static void ConfigureFirebaseAuthentication(IServiceCollection services,
IConfiguration configuration)
{
var options = new AppOptions() { Credential = GoogleCredential.FromFile("firebase-config.json") };
FirebaseApp.Create(options);
services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)
.AddJwtBearer(
opt =>
{
opt.IncludeErrorDetails = true;
opt.Authority = configuration["FirebaseAuthentication:ValidIssuer"];
opt.TokenValidationParameters = new()
{
ValidateIssuer = true,
ValidateAudience = true,
ValidateLifetime = true,
ValidateIssuerSigningKey = true,
ValidIssuer = configuration["FirebaseAuthentication:ValidIssuer"],
ValidAudience = configuration["FirebaseAuthentication:ValidAudience"]
};
}
);
}
This validated the request against the firebase API, but I don't see how I am able to implement something similar for Appwrite. Also the docs don't mention anything helpful.
Does anyone know how to achieve this?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, Appwrite doesn't have a .NET SDK yet so you would have to manually make the API call. I don't know .NET very well, but I generated code using the API specs and Insomnia:
var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage
{
Method = HttpMethod.Post,
RequestUri = new Uri("https://[HOSTNAME]/v1/account/sessions/email"),
Headers =
{
{ "X-Appwrite-Project", "[PROJECT ID]" },
},
Content = new StringContent("{\n \"email\": \"[EMAIL]\",\n \"password\": \"[PASSWORD]\"\n}")
{
Headers =
{
ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json")
}
}
};
using (var response = await client.SendAsync(request))
{
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
var body = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Console.WriteLine(body);
}
If this is successful, you can grab the X-Fallback-Cookies response header and use that for future requests.
Otherwise, if you don't want to create a session server side and you have an Appwrite JWT token generated from your front end, you can make API calls to Appwrite and pass the JWT token in the X-Appwrite-JWT header to make requests on behalf of the user.
For more information on working directly with the Appwrite REST API, refer to the REST docs.