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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EnableResponseTracking under CsvRequestLogger
CsvRequestLogger has a boolean 'EnableResponseTracking' property; it works perfect. But, sometimes the response data is a file and it makes the log file huge and difficult to read. It would be nice to make the property a lambda(Func) expression so that the user can decide when to include the response data.
3 votesI've just added support for this in this commit:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/commit/167d66340544c51a83bc00ec62054bfb975569aa
This change is available from v6.1.1 that's now available on MyGet:
https://docs.servicestack.net/myget
FYI we're also working on a built-in Request Logger UI we hope you'll find useful at: /admin-ui/logging (you'll need the "Admin" role to access it)
We're also moving feature requests to our new GitHub Discussions site at:
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Add support for Dart Null Safety
Add Dart Null Safety support to generated Dart DTOs & servicestack dart client library.
5 votesThis is now ready to use by downloading the latest ServiceStack v5.11.1 on MyGet (https://docs.servicestack.net/myget).
If you previously had v5.11.1 installed you’ll need to clear your NuGet cache and restoring:
$ nuget locals all -clear
This will generate null safe DTOs that need to be used with v2+ of servicestack dart library:
dependencies:
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Python as a supported Native Type
The addition of Python as a Native Type would make it a lot easier to integrate ServiceStack and Python.
3 votesPython is now natively supported from v5.12+
https://docs.servicestack.net/python-add-servicestack-referenceIncluding support for generating Python Jupyter Notebooks:
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Make servicestack compatible with AWS lambda
As it stands currently serverless is the future of application development . With services like serverless.com and the benefit these being to developers in terms of low / no touch deployments , massive cost savings and infinite scalability, it's clear that serverless is here to stay.
Many companies like us - Moosend.com - have invested years in creating microservices on Servicestack. Typically the service platform can't dictate the infrastructure architecture. Therefore now that we have decided to move a lot of our services over to AWS and Lambda we face the dilemma of having to pick between lambda and servicestack…
1 voteOur aws-lambda template is a pre-configured template of ServiceStack for AWS Lambda
https://github.com/NetCoreTemplates/aws-lambdaA customizable project template can be created from out Getting Started page:
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Add Sign in with Apple auth provider
Add Sign in with Apple auth provider support for servicestack. Same way as there is facebook, google and other providers
3 votesThe AppleAuthProvider from the ServiceStack.Extensions .NET Core 3.1 NuGet package is now available from v5.9.3+ that’s now available on MyGet (https://docs.servicestack.net/myget)
An example project + docs is available from:
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Expose cancellable async methods in clients through an interface
IHttpRestClientAsync exposes various method-specific async methods as well as SendAsync.
SendAsync has a cancellation token parameter in its signature:
Task<TResponse> SendAsync<TResponse>(string httpMethod, string absoluteUrl, object request, CancellationToken token = default);
while other methods (GetAsync, PostAsync etc) don't
Implementations of IHttpRestClientAsync (like JsonHttpClient) do have the methods which support then token:
public Task<TResponse> GetAsync<TResponse>(IReturn<TResponse> requestDto, CancellationToken token) => SendAsync<TResponse>(HttpMethods.Get, ResolveTypedUrl(HttpMethods.Get, requestDto), null, token);
and in fact all the method-specific implementations just call SendAsync under the hood.
Without token-aware methods exposed through an interface I cannot use them in a depencency-injected IServiceClient and its derivatives. They are only usable if…
1 voteYeah the clients async interfaces weren’t ideal, it started from the initial impl of the .NET WebRequest clients being implemented using the older APM model which didn’t use them. Other implementations just kept the same API.
Anyway since it’s a source-compatible change (will require a rebuild after upgrade), I’ve added an optional CancellationToken to all Async Service Client APIs in this commit:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/commit/dc6a281e80987b522c218bc82ce9cfefb111ea86
This change is now available from v5.8.1 that’s now available on MyGet:
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Blazor support
Blazor (www.blazor.net) seems to be the next revolution in web programming, where C# can be used instead of Javascript.
However, WebAssembly is in essence still Javascript, and thus it seems that the C# client for Servicestack cannot be used:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56386712/servicestack-adding-blazor-support
I would suggest looking into supporting Blazor client-side programming with ServiceStack, at least a C# client that works with the ServiceStack cli (https://docs.servicestack.net/csharp-client).
Regards
67 votesFrom v6 ServiceStack now has first-class for Blazor WASM, checkout the release notes:
https://docs.servicestack.net/releases/v6#blazor-webassembly
The official docs for Blazor WASM is now at:
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mix alias <name> <url>
Would be nice to specify easy to remember alias for custom gist.
1 voteLocal aliases are now implemented, examples at:
https://sharpscript.net/sharp-apps/app-index#app-local-aliases
In addition The global mix directory, i.e. provides short alias + description & tags to help with discovery.
https://gist.github.com/gistlyn/9b32b03f207a191099137429051ebde8
Please leave a comment on that gist with the alias, link, description, tags you want added.
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PHP Service Clients and DTO generation
Our clients wish to consume our services via PHP.
ServiceStack support for PHP via Service Clients, DTO generation and possibly 'Add Service Reference' would be great!
3 votesTyped Language support for PHP is available via gRPC which provides a similar dev workflow to Add ServiceStack Reference, see:
https://todoworld.servicestack.net/#php
Although PHP happens to be the ugliest language to generate typed clients for, nowhere near as nice as its Python and Ruby cousins.
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25 votes
We’re going to support Server Events for alt languages through ServiceStack’s new gRPC support which has a dedicated “Server Stream” rpc channel that’s specifically designed for persisten server communications like Server Events.
There’s a Dart Server Events example in the docs:
https://docs.servicestack.net/grpc#server-stream-grpc-services
https://docs.servicestack.net/grpc-dartMay look at improving the development UX in future with an “Adapter” of the gRPC stream to provide a declarative UX for registering handlers.
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Add SqlListLazy to OrmLite
When using raw SQL, due to having complex CTE queries, that does not start with
SELECT
but rather withWITH
, theSqlList
method loads everything in one go.
This is unfortunate when the result set is large, and we would like to process one row at a time, and avoid the memory overhead, and waiting time, of getting the whole result set at once.The
SelectLazy
would have solved this problem, if it had supported any arbitrary SQL, but it does not.
According to the documentationSelectLazy
can do this if the SQL starts withSELECT
however, for our…1 voteThis should now be supported using the existing `SelectLazy` APIs from v5.7.1+ that’s now available on MyGet.
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Possibility to download previous version of ServiceStackVS extension
Since latest update of ServiceStackVS seems to introduce a bug in VS 2015, the option "Add ServiceStack Reference" is no longer appearing in project context menu. In addition, the ability to update ServiceStack References is broken too.
Where can I download previous version of this extension ?
4 votesDownload of previous version available from:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/Issues/issues/673#issuecomment-493648089
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Support for Visual Studio 2019
VS2019 will be released tomorrow, but the current VSIX is not compatible with it. Aside from bumping the supported versions, it should also be updated to an AsyncPackage.
6 votesThe latest release of ServiceStackVS v2.0 now supports VS2019, quick preview at:
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Update FluentValidation to the latest version
Per https://github.com/JeremySkinner/FluentValidation the latest version is 8.2.3 and it has numerous updates.
3 votesServiceStack has been upgraded to the latest version of FluentValidation v8.2.3 in this commit:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/commit/6e40ce8fa1fd3ea6a038db48a0e1ff5fe9a318c0
This is now available from v5.5.1 that’s now on MyGet: https://docs.servicestack.net/myget
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mongodb / nosql support
For a few of us, we are constrained with having to use mongodb or other nosql databases instead of an RDBMS.
It would be good if we have a some sort of native mongodb support or at least a few examples/patterns of how to go about a full mongodb/servicestack solution. I understand that we have examples of redis usage but, we do not have authentication and other similar aspects as examples.
Love the tooling still! yet hate to work with anything else now (you spoiled us!) that I have to work with mongodb.
Cheers!
-Simo18 votesIn the latest v5.6 Release the MongoDB Auth Provider now supports .NET Core and can be easily configured into an existing ASP .NET Core App using the new `mix` dotnet tool feature:
https://docs.servicestack.net/releases/v5.6#mix-in-features-into-aspnet-core-apps
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OrmLite.PostgreSQL support for HStore types (Dictionary)
Support of HStores when using Dictionary<string,string> or as a new field attribute.
HStores (key values) are very good in certain scenarios (logging/auditing) and complex parsing is easier to do in .NET than in SQL.
Custom SQL that SELECT's data is easy, but not easy to insert/save hstore in custom sql.
Also Npgsql already supports them.
More info here:
https://forums.servicestack.net/t/cannot-insert-idictionary-string-string-into-hstore-column/68943 votesHstore support has been added to OrmLite in the last v5.5 release:
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Support OAuth2 on .net core
At the moment, the OAuth2 Providers for ServiceStack library does not support .net core, as explained by mythz in this StackOverflow answer:
ServiceStack's OAuth2 depends on DotNetOpenAuth which unfortunately doesn't support .NET Core so there's currently no support for OAuth2 - https://stackoverflow.com/a/42344183/969613
Google Authentication is a feature requirement on my current project, so this one thing is preventing us from moving to .net core, support for this would be great.
154 votesThe remaining OAuth2 providers have been rewritten in v5.5 without the Dependency to DotNetOpenAuth and are now in ServiceStack.Auth with the rest of the Auth Providers which all support .NET Standard 2.0/.NET Core
https://docs.servicestack.net/releases/v5.5#new-auth-providers
These new Auth Providers are available in the new Auth templates:
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Create Auto Crud
Take a project like http://www.mattjcowan.com/funcoding/2013/05/11/restful-api-and-ui-for-typed-views-and-typed-lists/
and lift it to the next level.
Purpose: Point ActiveScaffold with AutoCrud to your database, and you get a half sensible CRUD web interface to maintain it. In other words, an instant backoffice.
This is orthogonal to any other API usage of ServiceStack.Inspired by the Rails equivalent "https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold" that is very nicely designed, with both configuration and override possibilities.
22 votesOur Auto CRUD and “Auto Scaffolding” was added in v5.9
https://docs.servicestack.net/releases/v5.9
AutoGen is our “Auto Scaffolding” solution:
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Integrate with Thinktecture.IdentityProvider
I would like to have an OpenId and OAuth integration with Thinktecture.IdentityServer just like google and Facebook. I would like to implement my own SSO instead of relying on social networking OpenId
42 votesPlease see Using IdentityServer4 Auth in ServiceStack
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Enable foreign key constraint checks for Sqlite
Currently OrmLite's Sqlite adapter supports creation of foreign key constraints when using the ForeignKey attribute on your data classes. However the foreign keys aren't actually enforced at the database by default (for 'compatibility reasons').
I don't know when Sqlite added the feature, but it will check constraints if you send a pragma at the start of each connection:
http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_foreign_keys
I've tested a simple workaround by sending the pragma as a SQL statement in my service methods), and the constraints are enforced as expected. Cascade deletes work as expected too.
However this isn't optimal if you want your service code to…
4 votesThe EnableForeignKeysCheck/Async and DisableForeignKeysCheck/Async APIs are the RDBMS agnostic APIs for enabling/disabling FK constraints which in SQLite sets the foreign_keys PRAGMA.
There’s no state or concept of “prepending to first db request”, the right time to call it is after opening a DB Connection which you can wrap in your own Custom SqliteOrmLiteConnectionFactory as Franck shows in comments or behind a custom IDbConnection extension method that does it or if you want it called everytime you can register it on the IOrmLiteDialectProvider’s OnOpenConnection delegate which is also available on the OrmLiteConnectionFactory’s ConnectionFilter.
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