Multitenant/Shared Application system, how to maintain multiple tentant-specific identifiers? - ravendb

I have a multi-tenant system where each tenant shares the same instance of the codebase, but has their own databases.
I'm using RavenDB for persistence, with a standard c# facade/BLL backend wrapped with Asp.net WebAPI, and I'm finding that at every lower level operation (deep within my business logic classes) that touch the datbase, I need to pass in an identifier so that my RavenDb client session knows which database to operate against.
When the user authenticates, I resolve the appropriate database identifer, store it in the session manager. Every call against the Web API layer passes in a session ID which resolves the database ID in the backend, which is then used to pass into every single facade/BLL call.
All my dependencies are handled via an IoC container at the WebAPI level, but i can't pass in the database ID at this phase because it can be different for every user that is logged in.
this, of course is getting tedious.
can someone give me some guidance as to what I can do to alleviate this? Maybe perhaps some sort of policy injection/AOP solution?
a rough sample of my backend code looks like..
public class WidgetService()
{
private WidgetBLL _widgetBLL;
private ISessionManager _sessionManager;
public WidgetService(WidgetBLL _widgetBLL, ISessionManager sessionManager)
{
_widgetBLL = widgetBLL;
_sessionManager = sessionManager
}
public Widget getWidget(string sessionId, string widgetId)
{
string DbId = sessionManager.ResolveDbId(sessionId)
return _widgetBLL.GetWidget(string dbId, string widgetId);
}
}
public class WidgetManager()
{
public GetWidget(string dbId, string widgetId)
{
using (IDocumentSession session = documentStore.OpenSession(dbId)
{
var widget = session.load<Widget>(widgetid);
}
return widget;
}
}
the DBID is the identifier for that particular tenant that this particular user is a member of.

You need to change how you are using the session.
Instead of opening and closing the session yourself, do that in the IoC code.
Then you pass a session that is already opened for the right db.

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My target is receiving user rows, updating user information, creating users, deleting an user row. Those are the endpoints I found in Postman after importing (I didn't create those endpoints):
GET 'http://localhost:47391/api/register',
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{
"ResponseStatus": {
"ErrorCode": "NotImplementedException",
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[Route("/register")]
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}
BUT there isn't a model class like 'User' due to the tables are created by ServiceStack itself, how to solve this?
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The error message:
Could not find method named Get(Register) or Any(Register) on Service RegisterService
Is saying you're trying to call the built-in ServiceStack Register Service instead of your Service. But the Register Services isn't enabled by default, your AuthFeature likely explicitly enables it, either with:
Plugins.Add(new RegistrationFeature());
Or on the AuthFeature:
Plugins.Add(new AuthFeature(...) {
IncludeRegistrationService = true
});
If you don't want to enable ServiceStack's built-in Register Service you'll need to remove the registration where it's enabled.
If you instead want the Register Service registered at a different path, you can specify a different route with:
Plugins.Add(new RegistrationFeature {
AtRestPath = "/servicestack-register"
});

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#Stateless
#Remote(IAService.class)
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{
#Resource
private EJBContext context;
#Override
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}
Nobody answered my question so far and because I finally have a working solution I will now share it with you:
The Java EE API does not provide any methods to access the information in server independent way. So I tried the method of writing a login module which sets a custom principal. As it turns out this does not work either.
Inspired by the answer to this question I now use the following code to get the caller roles:
private Group getRoles() {
final Subject subject = (Subject)PolicyContext.getContext("javax.security.auth.Subject.container");
final Set<Group> groups = subject.getPrincipals(Group.class);
for (final Group group : groups) {
if ("Roles".equals(group.getName())) {
return group;
}
}
throw new IllegalStateException("No roles group found");
}
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We are using spring security in our web application based on spring MVC.
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p.populateContext(ctx);
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}
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We have audit columns set by triggers.
For obscure security reasons predating my tenure and out of my control, we log in with a generic user, and do a 'set session authorization' to change the user to the db user of the user who is logged in.
When we converted to NHibernate, it creates a whole new session and jacks everything up
when we try to do a set session auth, so we turned the set session auth off...
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It's not a ideal soloution, or the best way to do it even, but is it possible?
I was hoping there was a alternate interface that allowed this kind of access.
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Thanks,
Eric-
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Example:
public class MyConnectionProvider : DriverConnectionProvider
{
public override IDbConnection GetConnection()
{
var connection = base.GetConnection();
var sessionAuthCommand = connection.CreateCommand();
sessionAuthCommand.CommandText = "set session authorization " + GetUser();
sessionAuthCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();
return connection;
}
}
And then configure NHiberate to use that as the connection provider.
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