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Feature, docs and use-case samples requests for ServiceStack. If you can, focus on the end-user benefit / use-case, rather than the technical details so we can focus on the end-goal and free us to work on how best to achieve it. Features can also include supporting content, e.g. a starter project on how to use ServiceStack with another product (e.g. SS + SharePoint).

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  1. Why 'Fmt'?

    Why don't you use plain 'Format' instead?

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    ‘fmt’ is a widely used abbreviation to mean format, as this is something that can used a lot we prefer its most abbreviated form to reduce the noise. If you prefer a longer name you can use the equivalent `.FormatWith()` extension method however both these APIs are effectively deprecated with C# 6’s new string interpolation.

    Please ask questions in Customer Forums or StackOverflow: https://forums.servicestack.net

  2. Change ServiceStackVS templates to Gulp

    Gulp has got much better friction in the community than Grunt and many people already moved to Gulp completely. ServiceStack SPA templates use Grunt and leverage Gulp packages via grunt-gulp, which seems to be articifial. Wouldn't it be easier just to remove Grunt at all and make everything with Gulp instead?

    12 votes
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  3. 6 votes
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  4. ORMLite - Add attribute to ignore property on updates

    It'd be nice to have an attribute to apply to data DTOs that would cause them to be excluded if an update statement is executed.

    Use case: Auditing
    I have an IAudit interface that looks like (basically copied from Demis' answer here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21803999/are-interceptors-possible-in-servicestack-ormlite)

    public IAudited{
    string CreatedBy {get; set;}
    DateTime CreatedDate {get;set;}
    string ModifiedBy {get;set;}
    string ModifiedDate {get;set;}
    }

    Using OrmLite's insert filter makes it easy to generate values for the interface members when setting, as I can get the current user and Date and use them for both the Created and Modified fields. On an update though, I…

    19 votes
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  5. Java Client: Add all fields on @ApiMember annotation to prevent compilation errors

    For example if the API definitions has ExcludeInSchema set, the autogenerated DTOs do not compile due to unrecognized field on the annotation.

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  6. Add support for non-ambient TypeScript module generation in ssutil

    While having typing information in an ambient module (d.ts) is great for most use cases it doesn't cover the following two problems:

    • Using enums declared in an ambient module: The enums are not compiled to JavaScript objects and can therefore not be used
    • Creating instances of DTOs: You cannot create an instance of a DTO if it is an interface.

    My suggestion is to have the possibility to create a normal TypeScript module with classes instead of interfaces and exported enums which can be compiled to JavaScript.

    Currently the following ambient module is created

    declare module api
    {
    interface MyDTO…

    11 votes
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  7. Add basic/digest authentication to AndroidServiceClient

    Add built-in basic/digest authentication to the android JsonServiceClient/AndroidServiceClient

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  8. WebServiceException ToString Overrride

    Hi, currently WebServiceException does not override to string , so that the base ToString() implementation which returns quite "unusefull" info

    I suggest to override the ToString method of WebServiceException
    to add info such as errorCode, errorMessage, StatusCode, .Responsestatus.Errors .. etc ..

    That would turn usefull, expecially when logging, since most logging mechanism dump the ex.ToString() ..

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  9. enum information in the metadata page

    according to this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22072109/is-there-a-way-to-have-a-servicestack-metadata-page-show-all-the-options-for-an

    it's not possible to have enum information show up in the metadata page, but only in swagger .. it would be nice to have such allowed enum values in metadata page as well.

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  10. Deprecate or update docs.servicstack.net

    Can you either shelve or update docs.servicestack.net? They appear to be very out-of-date, but keep showing up in search results. While most of the information is relevant, its incomplete and occasionally misleading.

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  11. Allow debuggable Razor views

    Microsoft's ASP.Net MVC allows users to set breakpoints in Razor views and debug them in Visual Studio. It would be splendid if ServiceStack could do the same

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  12. Make virtual some methods in OrmLiteAuthRepository

    It's possibile to make inheritable some methods in OrmLiteAuthRepository class, to allow custom logics?

    For example CreateUserAuth, UpdateUserAuth, CreateOrMergeAuthSession, GetPermissions/Role, Has Permission/Roles, etc

    3 votes
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  13. 4 votes
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  14. Update fluent validation library

    There are bug-fixes and improvements made to the original fluent validation source at:

    https://github.com/JeremySkinner/FluentValidation/

    15 votes
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  15. Allow sub-select SqlExpression in Sql.In clauses

    The Load* methods already do this internally (sort-of), but allow explicitly creating Where expressions that use a sub-select to get the IDs, instead of the Sql.In() utility. Or possibly reworking Sql.In to support a Select with a single column.

    Something like this:
    var customers = Db.From<Customers>().Where( ... my complex expression ... ).Select("Id");

    var orders = Db.Select<Orders>(q => Sql.In(q.CustomerId, customers);

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  16. Command Line/Buildserver support for ServiceStack references

    We use the ServiceStackVS extension to generate TypeScript code for our service.
    During development (when the API might still change) it would be really nice is we could generate the TypeScript code as a step in the build process to make sure our TypeScript projects are always build against the latest API (and fail when there are breaking changes).

    Although we currently only use the TypeScript generator I assume the same applies to the other languages as well.

    7 votes
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  17. Allow us to use Geography data type in Sql Server

    It would be nice to be able to take advantage of the Geography type in Sql Server... even better, I wonder if there would be a way to allow "us" to define custom classes for these more advanced data types that are built into a database.

    3 votes
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  18. OrmLite Join Aliases

    Joining on the same table multiple times results in incorrect SQL being generated by OrmLite.

    Table aliases need to be added automatically by OrmLite so the correct SQL is generated when joining on the same table multiple times.

    14 votes
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  19. Add Email Templating Engine

    Similar to ServiceStack Bundler, it'd be fantastic to have a node.js-powered email templating system for generating transactional emails with custom data payloads out of a SS app.

    It'd be great if the engine worked with simple html templates and CSS so that non-C# people can get involved. Something super simple to use and set up, but powerful in execution.

    This would make emails:

    • testable
    • collaborative (e.g. with frontend engineers)
    • iterable (easy transactional email multivariate testing?)
    • CSS automatic inlining
    • optional integration with litmus.com?
    18 votes
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    The latest v5.2 release includes a powerful and easy to use template system which is ideal for non-devs to create email templates:

    https://docs.servicestack.net/releases/v5.2#servicestack-templates-remastered

    The Background MQ provides a great way to send emails in the background:
    http://docs.servicestack.net/background-mq

    A working example of this is available in TechStacks:
    https://github.com/NetCoreApps/TechStacks#background-mq-service

    Whilst the Email Templates use-case shows an example of generating text + html emails with markdown:
    http://templates.servicestack.net/usecases/email-templates

  20. OrmLite T4 templates doesn't generate Views

    OrmLite T4 templates should generate Views,

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