Feature Requests
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. HATEOAS (RDF/Semantic web support for entities), 2. ASP-Net Indentity Authentication Integration (http://www.asp.net/identity/)
I've read somewhere where you don't see the need for hateoas support Demis, but I'd encourage you to revisit the subject... RDF semantic web is growing (ie RDFa), so at least support for applying sematic attributes to each object could be helpful (ie FOAF, Dublin Core, etc.)
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Enhanced Form Post Model Binding in Service Stack (like ASP.NET MVC)
For example, in ASP.NET MVC if you have a list of Customer.Orders that you decide to render out on the page using a loop in a Razor View, you can use a naming convention for your html input "name" attribute so that when that form is posted to the server the form data will be properly deserialized/bound to your server Customer.Orders list.
The convention:
input name="Customer.Orders[0].Name"
input name="Customer.Orders[1].Name"
input name="Customer.Orders[2].Name"So, when this is posted to the server, ASP.NET MVC will create a Default Customer object and then create each Order and bind the Name value from the input and…
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WADL Implementation
Many serious architecture work on Restful+JSON and consumers are more and more asking for some WADL to industrialize their exchanges.
This may be a main criteria to select a ServiceStack.
So i suggest the WADL implementation directly on ServiceStack.35 votes -
Configurable Webservices Host container
Have a user configurable host container (maybe developed as an example) that would permit to upload "Servicestack components" and let the admin configure custom routes at runtime, giving a single place where to combine different webservices projects, configure authentication, caching and see performance graphs.
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Allow Serialization/Deserialization of DTO objects through a Stream for returning unbounded results sets
following the discussion on the related post (https://plus.google.com/102769881855401822960/posts/FjydVsKJWTT) it would be great to be able to return a result set of DTO objects in a stream (which could be deserialized as they arrived on the client to reduce latency). a custom IEnumerator/IEnumerable result type could be used to hide the specifics of deserializing the objects from the stream.
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Add ServiceStack + SharePoint example
Create a starter template showing how to use ServiceStack + SharePoint together.
31 votes -
Include XML documentation files in the NuGet releases
It seems no XML documentation is shipped with NuGet packages. This makes discovery hard, for example with Intellisense in Visual Studio, and is a shame given that the documentation is already written.
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Enhance ServiceStack Razor page lookup options
I have a custom basic CMS I put together (work in progress) for some of my clients that allows developers to build CMS plugins that auto-install on application startup. The plugins can deploy both content pages and view pages (and use ServiceStack plugins and CMS plugin interfaces to configure, and add capabilities to the CMS at startup), similar to how NopCommerce and Orchard work.
Currently, I have to rely on view pages to be unique, but I would like to be able to modify the lookup algorithm to take advantage of paths to the razor/markdown pages in the Views folder,…
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Support webapi replacement and asp.net integration out of the box
I know you have a better story for authentication, fresh, clean, no dependency, etc.
I know you have a better story for authorization, fresh, clean, no dependency, etc.
I know you have a better story for cache/session - fresh, clean, no dependency, not single threaded, etc.However, it can be difficult to replace all that to start with, so servicestack should ship with adapters to use asp.net authentication, authorization, cache/session out of the box
See prior post.
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Add Distirbuted Configuration Management
with distributed services, the configuration is stored on application configuration files, these are hard to maintain in sync and requires application restart to apply changes.
the distributed configuration manager can take this issue down, and allow configuration changes at runtime on a single place.
much like the Netflix Archaius library
https://github.com/Netflix/archaius/wiki/Features3 votes -
Service "Interceptor" would be a nice touch.
In a similar but now discontinued Agatha RRSL service (source available on git), there's a "interceptor". It has constructor that allows IoC, BeforeHandling, AfterHandling, plus RequestContext that has access to both Request and Response object. You can register multiple interceptors at start up and they will wrap around each other, and around the default handler. Would be nice feature that allows true aspect programming in ServiceStack.
6 votes -
High Availability Pattern
I'm dubious about whether to suggest this, but something that enabled easier high availability for a SS Service would be great. This would maybe be more like a recipe than a feature, but possibly with features to help support it.
E.g.
We run a ServiceStack API Service which depends on redis and postgres, each with replication to secondary nodes which are readonly until we manually execute a failover command. Running multiple ServiceStacks on VPSs (or whatever) is easy, but having them co-ordinate is slightly trickier. So the type of thing I'm suggesting would include- Digital Ocean recipe for running up…
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Support for response warnings on read-only properties
Imagine you have large DTOs that are ushared for GET, POST and PUT.
Some properties might only be used for display purposes, and cannot be updated (i.e. denormalized fields).
You might also allow the setting of a property on POST, but not on PUT. For example, you might not allow the Id of an object to be set on POST (because it will be the primary key identity insert), but if you want to update it, you can pass it in a PUT:
We currently are doing this using a custom attribute and interface on the models and model properties.
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Support Private Constructors in ServiceStack.Text
When creating immutable objects, it's common to not have a default constructor. ServiceStack.Text supports this presently with the use of FormatterServices.GetUnitializedObject. However, GetUnitializedObject does not do any field initialization. The DataContractSerializer works around this with support of the OnDeserialized attribute; but why would we want to write the initialization code twice? Instead, We should change ServiceStack.Text to fall back to private constructors. Here is some proposed code.
public static ConstructorInfo GetEmptyConstructor(this Type type) {if NETFX_CORE
return type.GetTypeInfo().DeclaredConstructors.FirstOrDefault(c => c.GetParameters().Count() == 0);else
…var ret = type.GetConstructor(Type.EmptyTypes); if (ret != null) return ret; // attempt to use constructors with all4 votes -
Show user API Key from Studio App
Would be nice to see the user's associated api keys from the Studio App when you are logged as an admin.
1 vote -
Web App support for accessing remote ServiceStack services
Templates has a sendToGateway option. In a Web App it would be good if settings could be provided for the baseUrl for the ServiceStack service which should receive the request.
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Allow custom type converter for CSV parser
The only thing that keeps me from dropping CsvHelper and using SS Csv capabilities for everything is that quite often I need a custom type converter.
For instance sometimes currency is a mix of numbers and letters or there can be inconsistent data.
If there was a way to register a method that would receive the raw column values and alter them then this would make it much more versatile in my opinion.
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Add support for [References(TYPE)] in NativeTypesFeature
The NativeTypesFeature is used by ServiceStackVS does a great job of looking at all types exposed by Services. However, it fails to include (or exclude via options) any type only referenced via a "ReferencesAttribute" data annotation. This forces me to either create a complete clone of the type just for automatic client DTO generation, or to create an additional dummy service route that exposes this type.
Can the NativeTypesFeature be enhanced to also include Reference(TYPE) and/or References(TYPE)?
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OrmLite: Implicit Reference Conventions for string keys
I'm working with an existing legacy database schema. Many tables have string primary keys. These primary keys are typically named Code rather than Id. Id is reserved for int primary keys.
The implicit relationships are currently applied for properties ending in Id. It would be nice if this worked for properties ending in Code too (if marked with PrimaryKey attribute).
E.g.
q.Join<CustomerType>();
q.Join<CustomerType,Customer>((cust,type) => cust.CustomerTypeCode == type.Code);0 votes -
Add MQ Fallback on Service Clients for one-way requests
If a remote remote HTTP Service is unavailable add optional fallback functionality to an MQ endpoint for automated resilience/recovery.
0 votes
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