re: Mocking RIA Services Authentication and Authorization

Christoph Murczek — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:52:40 GMT

I was so busy looking for a factory for a Principal that I missed the obvious. In case anybody is wondering, the answer to my question above is... your mocking framework of choice. There you have it. Just define types implementing IIdentity and IPrincipal and have Moq, Rhino,... stub the properties for you.

Applying the same thought to the MockAuthenticationService you can use you mocking framework to model return values of the MockAuthenticationService's EndYyy methods. Or you sysnchronize the async pattern and mock the sync method.

re: Mocking RIA Services Authentication and Authorization

Christoph Murczek — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:38:05 GMT

Hi Kyle,

thanks for sharing this. One thing I don't get however. The MockAuthenticationService is intended to be used on the Silverlight client. As far as I know there's no way in Silverlight to instantiate something like a GenericPrincipal or get the currently logged in user other than using an actual AuthenticationService implementation which is what we're trying to avoid here. Where do I get the IPrincipal from that I need to instatiate the MockAuthenticationService and what would I use to set MockUser? Without an actual AuthenticationService I can't get any Principals or do I miss something?