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Why 'Fmt'?

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

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

‘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
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?

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

All Single Page App Templates have now been modernized in the latest v1.0.22 update:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/master/docs/2016/servicestackvs/v1.0.22.md

They now use Gulp and JSPM and both React Templates are now pre-configured with TypeScript
Add session cookies handling and automatic re-authentication on Java JsonServiceClient

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

Support for this should’ve been added in v4.0.52, see: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/master/docs/2016/release-notes.md#integrated-basic-auth
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 need to fetch the CreatedBy and CreatedDate fields for the record so I can populate the DTO before sending to the database

i.e. this will throw a null exception unless I previously populated the CreatedDate
OrmLiteConfig.UpdateFilter = (dbCmd, row) =>
{
var auditRow = row as IAudit;
if (auditRow != null)
{
auditRow.ModifiedDate = DateTime.UtcNow;
}
};

I'd like to be able to
public Audited : IAudited{
[IgnoreOnUpdate]
public string CreatedBy {get;set;}
[IgnoreOnUpdate]
public DateTime CreatedDate {get;set;}

public string ModifiedBy {get;set;}
public DateTime ModifiedDate {get;set;}
}

and have the generated sql not try to update the CreatedBy and CreatedDate fields and then the auditing would be transparent to the repository code

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…

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

You can use the [IgnoreOnUpdate] and [IgnoreOnInsert] to ignore properties on Update/Insert
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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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

These missing Attributes were added some time ago
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
{
foo: string;
bar: MyEnum;
}

enum MyEnum { foo, bar, baz, }

This is what should be possible to create:

module api
{
export class MyDTO
{
foo: string;
bar: MyEnum;
}

export const enum MyEnum { foo, bar, baz, }

This is what we currently want to do, but are not able to:

class Foo
{
constructor()
{
var dto = new MyDTO(); // not possible because MyDTO is an interface
dto.bar = MyEnum.foo; // not possible because MyEnum is not compiled to a JavaScript object
}
}
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…
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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

Since this seems to be a popular option we’ve added a friendlier url to enable this option:

TypeScript module:
http://test.servicestack.net/types/typescript

Definition file:
http://test.servicestack.net/types/typescript.d

We’ve also added an index containing links to all the supported languages at:
http://test.servicestack.net/types
Add basic/digest authentication to AndroidServiceClient

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

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

Support for BasicAuth was added in 1.0.23 in this commit: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Java/commit/80d0597f5dafa8f462fa86c2c78bfcfeeb4133d5

It uses the same API’s as the .NET ServiceClient, e.g client.setCredentials() and client.setAlwaysSendBasicAuthHeaders(true) if you always want the BasicAuth headers sent.
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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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

`WebServiceException.ToString()` was customized in this commit: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/commit/ee309c6c38c873cb11ee176aff59362ba19c8fcb

This change is available from v4.0.51 that’s now available on MyGet.
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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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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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

We’ve finally replaced this with our new Github-powered Docs website, check it out!

http://docs.servicestack.net
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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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

Thanks for Uri Hendler for pointing it out, this has now been enabled from this commit: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/commit/e2825b9655cda28910b65bb306e82ceeb3b7e36a

You’ll be able to debug Razor Views in DebugMode of by explicitly setting RazorFormat.IncludeDebugInfo = true;

Available from v4.0.45+ that’s now on MyGet:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/MyGet
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

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

All OrmLiteAuthRepository public API’s are now virtual from this commit: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/commit/487a64ee81a46fd5bcbf83a03d6dade5965ca6ed

This change is available from v4.0.43+ that’s now available on MyGet: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/MyGet
Allow LoadSingleById to selectively load references

Would like to replicate the functionality from this feature request in LoadSingleById: http://servicestack.uservoice.com/forums/176786-feature-requests/suggestions/6656885-allow-loadselect-to-selectively-load-references

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

This has been implemented by Johann Klemmack and is now available in v4.0.48, see examples at: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/master/docs/2015/release-notes.md#custom-load-references
Update fluent validation library

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

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

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

Fluent Validation has been updated to the latest release in v4.58:

http://docs.servicestack.net/releases/v4.5.8#fluent-validation-upgraded

Which also includes built-in support for Async Validators
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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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.

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

ssutil.exe was added in v4.0.42: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Add-ServiceStack-Reference#ssutilexe---command-line-servicestack-reference-tool
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.

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

Support for SQL Server GEO types added in latest v4.0.44 release: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite/wiki/SQL-Server-Types

OrmLite Type Converters now allows you to extend OrmLite to support new Types:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite/wiki/OrmLite-Type-Converters
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.

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

Support for Typed JOIN aliases were added in v4.0.62: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite#join-aliases
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?
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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

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
OrmLite T4 templates doesn't generate Views

OrmLite T4 templates should generate Views,

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completed · AdminDemis J Bellot (Developer, ServiceStack) responded

Need to change IncludeViews in OrmLite.Core.ttinclude to:

bool IncludeViews = true;

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Why 'Fmt'?

Change ServiceStackVS templates to Gulp

Add session cookies handling and automatic re-authentication on Java JsonServiceClient

ORMLite - Add attribute to ignore property on updates

Java Client: Add all fields on @ApiMember annotation to prevent compilation errors

Add support for non-ambient TypeScript module generation in ssutil

Add basic/digest authentication to AndroidServiceClient

WebServiceException ToString Overrride

enum information in the metadata page

Deprecate or update docs.servicstack.net

Allow debuggable Razor views

Make virtual some methods in OrmLiteAuthRepository

Allow LoadSingleById to selectively load references

Update fluent validation library

Allow sub-select SqlExpression in Sql.In clauses

Command Line/Buildserver support for ServiceStack references

Allow us to use Geography data type in Sql Server

OrmLite Join Aliases

Add Email Templating Engine

OrmLite T4 templates doesn't generate Views

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