Recently, a friend of mine asked me if there’s a better way to run integration tests without using in-memory DB because in-memory DB does not behave exactly like the real thing. In my opinion, the repository should be simple and not contain any business logic. Hence mocking the data in the in-memory DB for the … [Read more…]
In a recent project, I had to add support for multiple identity providers. Some endpoints/controllers will be restricted to a particular identity provider while others can be authenticated with either identity provider. Even though we only had one identity provider, we actually already constructed it in a way where it’s a collection of multiple providers. … [Read more…]
In one of my recent projects, I needed to create a new generic abstract class which implements another generic class and a couple other interfaces. I also needed to restrict the generic type in this generic abstract class to a specific type This is not something I commonly need to do so I was not … [Read more…]
In my previous post, I showed how to add MS Orleans to an existing WebAPI application. I also mentioned my frustrations around the documentation for MS Orleans. In the documentation, it says that Cluster ID ‘is a unique ID for the Orleans cluster. All clients and silos that use this ID will be able to … [Read more…]
In the previous post, I showed how to add MS Orleans to an existing WebAPI application. If you happen to use Entity Framework and you run your database migration in Program.cs before you run the application, you might get the below exception after adding MS Orleans ‘Instances cannot be resolved and nested lifetimes cannot be … [Read more…]
Given a XmlNode object, I needed to get the first children node by name. I used the SelectSingleNode method, providing a valid Xpath, but it didn’t work. For example, I need to get the first child node named Signature from the xmlNode It took me a bit of time to realise that the Signature node … [Read more…]
In one component of my current project, I need to grab the value of a property by name from a given JSON string. This JSON string is dynamic and I don’t know which strongly typed class to deserialise it to. Below is the function I ended up with to solve this problem.
I have a class with a complex object property that has a lot of properties and a lot of nested complex properties in it. Other properties in this class will be stored in SQL the normal way, relational and one column per property. Given the complexity of this particular property, I want to store it … [Read more…]
I recently have to build a class which has a property of type object. This property can be one of three types based on another property in the same class. Serialising Transaction class is fine and would just work. However, deserialising it would be a problem. For the Account property, it would not know which … [Read more…]
In my recent project, we have an Address class that is complex and has many properties in it. This class also has an ID property. We have a requirement where we need to replace this object with the ID string of the address wherever the address is used in any object when serialising to JSON. … [Read more…]