User.Identity.Name throw Object reference not set to an instance - asp.net-mvc-4

I have this code
public UserProfile spUserProfileGet()
{
// this line throw : Object reference not set to an instance
var user = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;
//...
}
In my IIS Development setting, I have
Anonymous Authentication : Disabled
Windows Authentication : Enabled
And i am getting
Object reference not set to an instance
Why is that ? I am using this class in many projects before with no problem :/
The HttpContext.Current.User is NULL, but why ?

The problem was, that I called HttpContext.Current.User from global.asax Application_BeginRequest() which does not contain this object yet. Here is description of application lifecycle https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178473.aspx and when I copy the code to the
Application_PostAuthenticateRequest, It works now.
The problem that remains, is that Application_PostAuthenticateRequest is triggered twice.

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Permission defaults ignored in Orchard

I try to set permissions for my new module. Otherwise they seem to work, but the defaults are ignored, nothing is checked for role-permission pairs I've set in the code. My code (Permissions.cs) seems OK:
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Orchard.Environment.Extensions.Models;
using Orchard.Security.Permissions;
using Orchard.Environment.Extensions;
using My.Module.Utils;
namespace My.Module
{
public class Permissions : IPermissionProvider {
public static readonly Permission AccessMyModule = new Permission {
Description = Constants.AccessAddon, Name = "AccessMyModule"
};
public virtual Feature Feature { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<Permission> GetPermissions() {
return new[] {
AccessMyModule
};
}
public IEnumerable<PermissionStereotype> GetDefaultStereotypes() {
return new[] {
new PermissionStereotype {
Name = Constants.MyModuleAdministratorRole,
Permissions = new[] { AccessMyModule }
}
};
}
}
}
I double checked that all the constants stored in Constants and the references for them are valid. The code snippet here is simplified, in fact I have more permissions and more roles in my project, but I confirmed commenting out everything but one permission and one role doesn't fix the problem. The defaults for the other modules in the same solution work fine, though there's no bug reported by IntelliSense and everything else in the module seems to work. So where else could be the root of the problem?
EDIT: I followed #mdameer's comment and confirmed that GetDefaultStereotypes() really runs only after reinstall. However, an error occurred while enabling the module after reinstall, so the defaults were not loaded. I know that the supposed way is to check the role - permission name in the dashboard, but I would like to find another workaround, because
I would like to solve the error that occurred and not to risk it happenning on the production server as well, and I can't delete and reinstall this rather complex module several times just to debug this. It was likely caused by the reinstall process, nowhere in the permission initialization, but I can't know without running the code.
there are tens of roles affected, so relying on someone to click the permissions by hand each time means that there will likely be errors due to human factor.
The GetDefaultStereotypes() method is being called from class DefaultRoleUpdater in Orchard.Roles. It is called automatically from somewhere deep in the Orchard core, so simply mimicking the call and running it on startup isn't that easy. I also tried to mimic the whole function and placed it into my permissions class (or into a custom service), but now I got lost on how to run it. It is not static, but it either is part of or refers to my Permissions class, which doesn't allow for ordinary referencing by default (it has no proper constructor) and I don't want to mess it even more by changing the class to something it is not and shouldn't be.
Just set the default permissions you need in a migration instead of using GetDefaultStereotypes(). Here is a short example:
public class MyMigration: Orchard.Data.Migration.DataMigrationImpl
{
// public
public MyMigration(Orchard.Roles.Services.IRoleService aRoleService)
{
mRoleService = aRoleService;
}
public int Create()
{
//mRoleService.CreateRole("MyRoleName");
//mRoleService.UpdateRole("MyRoleName", MyPermissions)
return 1;
}
// private
Orchard.Roles.Services.IRoleService aRoleService mRoleService;
}

Overriding IAuthSession OnRegistered handler

I am using ServiceStack's SocialBootstrapApi and it contains a class CustomUserSession that I can use to override the OnRegistered method. I want to override it because I am attempting to obtain information about the registration so that I can publish an event that a new user has registered. This handler provides an instance of the RegistrationService that handled the registration but not anything about the registration request itself or the resulting UserAuth instance. For instance, I'd like to get the e-mail address used to register.
public override void OnRegistered(IServiceBase registrationService)
{
base.OnRegistered(registrationService);
// Ideally, I could do get the registered user's primary e-mail address from the UserAuth instance.
var primaryEmail = ((RegistrationService) registrationService)
.UserAuthRepo
.GetUserAuth(this, null) //<--- 'this' is a mostly empty session instance
.PrimaryEmail;
}
This of course doesn't work because the session instance I'm using for the GetUserAuth call doesn't contain any of the necessary authentication information to be useful for looking up the user's authentication information. So GetUserAuth returns null as you would expect. So how should I go about obtaining this information? Would it be incorrect design for the OnRegistered handler to be passed the UserAuth instance created by the RegistrationService?
public interface IAuthSession
{
...
void OnRegistered(IServiceBase registrationService, UserAuth userAuth); // <-- new signature
...
}
That would be convenient! :)
Or perhaps there's another way to go about this?
Thanks in advance.
So how should I go about obtaining this information?
You should be able to access all the data of the Registration request via the registrationService. You just have to do a little digging and casting...
public override void OnRegistered(IServiceBase registrationService)
{
base.OnRegistered(registrationService);
var requestContext = (HttpRequestContext)registrationService.RequestContext;
var dto = ((Registration)requestContext.Dto);
var primaryEmail = dto.Email;
}
Would it be incorrect design for the OnRegistered handler to be passed the UserAuth instance created by the RegistrationService?
I'll leave design decisions to the professionals. The above code should work. The casting seems a bit ugly but all the necessary data is there.
I do not like hack into SS, so I chose to select user auth info from UserAuth collection by dto.UserName

Resolving constructor dependency on service used in NancyFX

I have the following bootstrap
public class NancyBootStrapper: DefaultNancyBootstrapper
{
protected override void ConfigureRequestContainer(TinyIoC.TinyIoCContainer container, NancyContext context)
{
base.ConfigureRequestContainer(container, context);
var ravenSession = container.Resolve< IRavenSessionProvider >().GetSession();
container.Register( ravenSession );
}
}
When my Nancy app tries to instantiate BlogService using the following constructor
public BlogService(IDocumentSession documentSession)
{
this.documentSession = documentSession;
}
the application blows up stating that it can't resolve document session, I have also tried the following within my test method (removing the constructor injection).
public void BuildCategories()
{
var container = TinyIoCContainer.Current;
documentSession = container.Resolve< IDocumentSession >();
documentSession.Store(new Category{Title = "test"});
documentSession.Store(new Category{Title = ".net"});
documentSession.SaveChanges();
}
This also blows up, pointing out that it can't resolve documentSession.
Now this is the first time I have used either NancyFX or TinyIoC so I could be doing something fundamentally wrong though I should mention that the documentSession does resolve within a Nancy module..
Can any one offer a fix or some suggestions?
When is the BlogService supposed to be instantiated? -My guess would be once for the application, in which case I believe you are registering the session in the wrong bootstrapper method, and should do it in ConfigureApplicationContainer.
I've been playing & digging into both NancyFx and the TinyIoC code bases and have figured out how to fix this issue... I don't like the fix... but hay it works :)
Basically, I am creating a RavenDB document session in the bootstrapper method configureRequestContainer as it is best practice to use the request as your unit of work scope.
Unfortunately anything that is auto wired by tinyIoC within configureApplicationContainer does not have any constructor injection performed using the child container being used by the Nancy request (this includes those that are marked as MultiInstance or as PerRequestSingleton.
To get around this, you need to re-register any components that depend on your per request components within the same child container.
As I said, I don't like the fix, but it is ultimately a fix :)

WCF app . Structure map Objectfactory losing instance of an Object

I am trying to get WCF work with Structuremap. I took most of the code from Jimmy Bogard's blog
Integrating StructureMap with WCF
I am reusing all my objects (Domain, NHIBERNATE , Service layer ) that was created for ASP.nET MVC application.I have a separate IoC Library where I bootstrap all regisrties
I have added global.asax and in Application Start Event this is what I have :
var webServiceRegistry = new WebServiceRegistry();
var bootStrapper = new IoC.BootStrapper();
bootStrapper.Start();
WebServiceRegistry is a normal class and in its constructor I have the following:
var appUser = new AppUser
{
Role = userDto.Role,
Email = userDto.Email,
Id = userDto.Id,
CompanyName = dealerDto.Name,
Name = userDto.Name,
IsImpersonated = false,
Impersonater = Guid.Empty
};
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User = appUser;
ObjectFactory.Configure(x => x.For<IAppUser>().Use(appUser));
Everything goes fine - no errors
Things start to fail when my my wcf service class is being instantiated which has a Domainservice object (IDomainServiceObject domainServiceObject) in constructor with 202 error.
The failure is in DomainService Registry where it fails to get default instance of IAppUser
Edit
Initial problem was in that I had error in constructor of StructureMapServiceHost.
Now I dont get any error but I am not getting the instance of IAppUser that I inject. In place of that it creates a new instance of AppUser.
Do anyone have a clue as to why this happens?
I have tried adding HttpContextScope , HybridHttpOrThreadLocalScoped and still same result
I have conformed that at the time all registries are called in bootstrapper IAppUser instance is the once that was provided with values in it (and not created by StructureMap)
In Application Start it does create the whole graph .
As soon as it enters webmethod ILMSUser is a new instance.
Thank you
Since you want the same object back every time you can use singleton
this.For<IAppUser>().Singleton().Use(appUser);

ChannelFactory Credentials + object is read only

Greetings, what is the problem that when I try to set credentials for my factory as follows:
ChannelFactory<IWCFSeekService> factory = Factory;
if (factory != null)
{
factory.Credentials.UserName.UserName = CServiceCredentials.Instance.Username;
_Channel = factory.CreateChannel();
}
I get an exception that object is read-only. It occurs when I want to set username.
Yes, the MSDN documentation is pretty clear:
C#
public ClientCredentials Credentials { get; }
The property only has a get accessor - no set accessor --> it's readonly.
Also in the MSDN docs:
Remarks
The ClientCredentials object is stored
as a type of endpoint behavior and can
be accessed through the Behaviors
property.
The OnOpened method initializes a
read-only copy of the
ClientCredentials object for the
factory.
So what is it you're doing to do here??
UPDATE: you cannot set the user credentials that your client proxy is supposed to use on the channel factory. See this excellent blog post on how to do it anyway - with a bit of a detour:
first, remove the default endpoint behavior from the factory
secondly, instantiate your own credentials
thirdly, set those new credentials as new endpoint behavior on factory
// step one - find and remove default endpoint behavior
var defaultCredentials = factory.Endpoint.Behaviors.Find<ClientCredentials>();
factory.Endpoint.Behaviors.Remove(defaultCredentials);
// step two - instantiate your credentials
ClientCredentials loginCredentials = new ClientCredentials();
loginCredentials.UserName.UserName = CServiceCredentials.Instance.Username;
loginCredentials.UserName.Password = “Password123″;
// step three - set that as new endpoint behavior on factory
factory.Endpoint.Behaviors.Add(loginCredentials); //add required ones
Seems a bit odd and complicated, but that seems to be the one and only way to achieve this!
To complete this answer, the actual way in which it worked for everyone as explained at
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/4668e261-0fd0-4ca5-91d2-497aa479f2a9/
You need not to remove, but override found credentials:
var credentialBehaviour = factory.Endpoint.Behaviors.Find < ClientCredentials > ();
credentialBehaviour.UserName.UserName = "test";
credentialBehaviour.UserName.Password = "test";
This has solved my problem.
This will not happen if the service reference is added through -> Add service reference ->Advanced->Add Web Reference-> Url/wsdl (local disk file).
The reference.cs file generated is different and will allow you to set credentials.
The error is because you might have added the reference through first screen itself (Add service reference)