IEntityLoginManager Serialization Issues

   We are working on upgrading to DevForce 2010. Our IEntityLoginManager worked fine in 2009 and I expect is not the issue here but I am at a loss at what IS causing the issue. Please advise.

"The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the message: There was an error while trying to deserialize parameter http://ideablade.com/EntityModel:LoginResult. The InnerException message was 'Element 'http://ideablade.com/EntityModel:Principal' contains data of the 'http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Security.Principal:GenericPrincipal' data contract. The deserializer has no knowledge of any type that maps to this contract. Add the type corresponding to 'GenericPrincipal' to the list of known types - for example, by using the KnownTypeAttribute attribute or by adding it to the list of known types passed to DataContractSerializer.'.  Please see InnerException for more details."

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midnit Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: Jun-22-2009 Location: Charlotte Posts: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote midnit Report Post Quote Reply Topic: IEntityLoginManager Serialization Issues Posted: Jul-02-2010 at 9:39am
	We are working on upgrading to DevForce 2010. Our IEntityLoginManager worked fine in 2009 and I expect is not the issue here but I am at a loss at what IS causing the issue. Please advise. "The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the message: There was an error while trying to deserialize parameter http://ideablade.com/EntityModel:LoginResult. The InnerException message was 'Element 'http://ideablade.com/EntityModel:Principal' contains data of the 'http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Security.Principal:GenericPrincipal' data contract. The deserializer has no knowledge of any type that maps to this contract. Add the type corresponding to 'GenericPrincipal' to the list of known types - for example, by using the KnownTypeAttribute attribute or by adding it to the list of known types passed to DataContractSerializer.'. Please see InnerException for more details."

ting Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List IdeaBlade Joined: Mar-27-2009 Location: San Francisco Posts: 332	Post Options Post Reply Quote ting Report Post Quote Reply Posted: Jul-02-2010 at 8:26pm
	We made a change to the IEntityLoginManager in DevForce 2010 (this was buried on page 28 of the Release Notes). You should now be returning a UserBase or your own IPrincipal. As Kim writes below, GenericPrincipal and GenericIdentity are not native to Silverlight and we no longer define them. If you subclass from UserBase make sure to mark any properties you need on the client with the [DataMember] attribute so they will serialize. If you implement your own IPrinicpal, you can make it serializable by doing the following: Have the class "implement" the IKnownType interface. (This is a marker interface, so no actual implementation is required.) Mark the class with the [DataContract] attribute Mark each serializable property with the [DataMember] attribute. Edited by ting - Jul-09-2010 at 5:19pm

kimj Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List IdeaBlade Joined: May-09-2007 Posts: 654	Post Options Post Reply Quote kimj Report Post Quote Reply Posted: Jul-04-2010 at 6:01pm
	GenericPrincipal and GenericIdentity are not types intrinsic to Silverlight. In DevForce Silverlight 2009 we did define these types within the DF assemblies, but we dropped this in DF 2010. (GenericPrincipal and GenericIdentity are still available in standard .NET - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.principal.genericprincipal.aspx.) You can return any type implementing IPrincipal from an IEntityLoginManager, as long as it's defined on both client and server.

mlens Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: Apr-19-2010 Location: Australia Posts: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote mlens Report Post Quote Reply Posted: Jul-29-2010 at 5:23pm
	Any chance you could post a sample implementation of the LoginManager under DevForce 2010? It's really confusing when you say GenericPrincipal and GenericIdentity are no longer supported but the login method of IEntityLoginManager returns IPrincipal.... Thanks

kimj Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List IdeaBlade Joined: May-09-2007 Posts: 654	Post Options Post Reply Quote kimj Report Post Quote Reply Posted: Jul-30-2010 at 10:30am
	There's a snippet here, along with more information - http://www.ideablade.com:8989/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/Security#HImplementingIEntityLoginManager