am sorry if this question will be a bit to broad but if this is question about normal ASP.NET MVC 5 Owin based application with default connection to MSSQL server i would not have such hard time but we use CRM as our database.
Ok as i mention am working on ASP.NET MVC5 application and am having hard time finding what is the best practice to create, keep open and to close connection to Dynamics CRM 365?
I found some many posts and blogs but everyone pulling on his side of the road.
Some say it's better for every request to open new connection in using statement so it could be closed right away (that's sounds good but it's a possible that requests will be slow because on every request it needs to open new connection to CRM).
Some say it' better to make singleton object on application scope, keep it open during application lifetime and reuse it on every request.
Normally i would use OrganizationServiceProxy in some simple console app but in this case am not sure should i use OrganizationServiceProxy or CrmServiceClient or something else?
If anyone have or had some similar problem, any hint would be great.
UPDATE:
#Nicknow
I downloaded SDK from SDK 365 and am using this dll-s.
Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.dll, Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Proxy.dll, Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector.dll and Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.dll.
You mention
Microsoft.CrmSdk.XrmTooling.CoreAssembly 8.2.0.5.
if am correct this nuget package use official assembly that i downloaded, or there are some modification to this package?
About that test
proof test
if i got it right, no matter if i use using statement, implement Dispose() method or just use static class on application scope for a lifetime of application i will allways get same instance (If i use default settings RequireNewInstance=false)?
For code simplicity, I usually create a static class (a singleton could be used too, but would usually be overkill) to return a CrmServiceClient object. That way my code is not littered with new CrmServiceClient calls should I want to change anything about how the connection is being made.
So it would be good practice to create static class on application scope that lives for application lifetime? That means that every user that makes request would use same instance ? Wouldn't that be i performance issue for that one connection?
All of your method calls will execute to completion or throw an exception thus even if the GC takes a while there is no open connection sitting out there eating up resources and/or blocking other activity.
This one takes me back to section where i allways get same instance of CrmServiceClient and got the part that xrm.tooling handles cached connection o the other side but what happens on this side (web application).
Isn't the connection to CRM (i.e. CrmServiceClient) unmanaged resources, shouldn't i Dispose() it explicitly?
I found some examples with CrmServiceClient and pretty much in all examples CrmServiceClient is casted in IOrganizationService using CrmServiceClient.OrganizationWebProxyClient or CrmServiceClient.OrganizationServiceProxy.
Why is that and what are the benefits of that?
I got so many questions but this is already allot to ask, is there any online documentation that you could point me to it?
First, I'm assuming you are using the latest SDK DLLs from Nuget: Microsoft.CrmSdk.XrmTooling.CoreAssembly 8.2.0.5.
I never wrap the connection in a using statement and I don't think I've ever seen an example where that is done. There are examples from the "old days", before we had tooling library, where calls to create OrganizationServiceProxy were wrapped in a using statement, which caused a lot of inexperienced developers to release code with connection performance issues.
Luckily most of this has been fixed for us through the Xrm.Tooling library.
Create your connection object using CrmServiceClient:
CrmServiceClient crmSvc = new CrmServiceClient(#"...connection string goes here...");
Now if I create an OrganizationServiceContext (or an early-bound equivalent) object I do wrap that in a using so that it is determinedly disposed when I've completed my unit of work.
using (var ctx = new OrganizationServiceContext(crmSvc))
{
var accounts = from a in ctx.CreateQuery("account")
select a["name"];
Console.WriteLine(accounts.ToList().Count());
}
The Xrm.Tooling library handles everything else for you as far the connection channel and authentication. Unless you specify to create a new channel each time (by adding 'RequireNewInstance=true' to the connection string or setting the useUniqueInstance to true when calling new CrmServiceClient) the library will reuse the existing authenticated channel.
I used the following code to do a quick proof test:
void Main()
{
var sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();
var crmSvc = GetCrmClient();
Console.WriteLine($"Time to get Client # 1: {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds}");
crmSvc.Execute(new WhoAmIRequest());
Console.WriteLine($"Time to WhoAmI # 1: {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds}");
var crmSvc2 = GetCrmClient();
Console.WriteLine($"Time to get Client # 2: {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds}");
crmSvc2.Execute(new WhoAmIRequest());
Console.WriteLine($"Time to WhoAmI # 2: {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds}");
}
public CrmServiceClient GetCrmClient()
{
return new CrmServiceClient("...connection string goes here...");
}
When I run this with RequireNewInstance=true I get the following console output:
Time to get Client # 1: 2216
Time to WhoAmI # 1: 2394
Time to get Client # 2: 4603
Time to WhoAmI # 2: 4780
Clearly it was taking about the same amount of time to create each connection.
Now, if I change it to RequireNewInstance=false (which is the default) I get the following:
Time to get Client # 1: 3761
Time to WhoAmI # 1: 3960
Time to get Client # 2: 3961
Time to WhoAmI # 2: 4145
Wow, that's a big difference. What is going on? On the second call the Xrm.Tooling library uses the existing service channel and authentication (which it cached.)
You can take this one step further and wrap your new CrmServiceClient calls in a using and you'll get the same behavior, because disposing of the return instanced does not destroy the cache.
So this will return times similar to above:
using (var crmSvc = GetCrmClient())
{
Console.WriteLine($"Time to get Client # 1: {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds}");
crmSvc.Execute(new WhoAmIRequest());
Console.WriteLine($"Time to WhoAmI # 1: {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds}");
}
using (var crmSvc2 = GetCrmClient())
{
Console.WriteLine($"Time to get Client # 2: {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds}");
crmSvc2.Execute(new WhoAmIRequest());
Console.WriteLine($"Time to WhoAmI # 2: {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds}");
}
For code simplicity, I usually create a static class (a singleton could be used too, but would usually be overkill) to return a CrmServiceClient object. That way my code is not littered with new CrmServiceClient calls should I want to change anything about how the connection is being made.
To fundamentally answer the question about using, we don't need to use it because there is nothing to be released. All of your method calls will execute to completion or throw an exception thus even if the GC takes a while there is no open connection sitting out there eating up resources and/or blocking other activity.
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Creating new project with auto-testing feature.
It uses basic express.
The question is how to orginize the code in order to be able to test it properly. (with mocha)
Almost every controller needs to have access to the database in order to fetch some data to proceed. But while testing - reaching the actual database is unwanted.
There are two ways as I see:
Stubbing a function, which intends to read/write from/to database.
Building two separate controller builders, one of each will be used to reach it from the endpoints, another one from tests.
just like that:
let myController = new TargetController(AuthService, DatabaseService...);
myController.targetMethod()
let myTestController = new TargetController(FakeAuthService, FakeDatabaseService...);
myTestController.targetMethod() // This method will use fake services which doesnt have any remote connection functionality
Every property passed will be set to a private variable inside the constructor of the controller. And by aiming to this private variable we could not care about what type of call it is. Test or Production one.
Is that a good approach of should it be remade?
Alright, It's considered to be a good practice as it is actually a dependency injection pattern
My question is a bit related to this: WebApi equivalent for HttpContext.Items with Dependency Injection.
We want to inject a class using HttpContext.Current in WebApi area using Ninject.
My concern is, this could be very dangerous, as in WebApi (everything?) is async.
Please correct me if I am wrong in these points, this is what I investigated so far:
HttpContext.Current gets the current context by Thread (I looked into the implementation directly).
Using HttpContext.Current inside of async Task is not possible, because it can run on another Thread.
WebApi uses IHttpController with method Task<HttpResponseMessage> ExecuteAsync => every request is async => you cannot use HttpContext.Current inside of action method. It could even happen, more Request are executed on the same thread by coicidence.
For creating controllers with injected stuff into constructors IHttpControllerActivator is used with sync method IHttpController Create. This is, where ninject creates Controller with all its dependencies.
If I am correct in all of these 4 points, using of HttpContext.Current inside of an action method or any layer below is very dangerous and can have unexpected results. I saw on StackOverflow lot of accepted answers suggesting exactly this. In my opinion this can work for a while, but will fail under load.
But when using DI to create a Controller and its dependencies, it is Ok, because this runs on one separated thread. I could get a value from the HttpContext in the constructor and it would be safe?. I wonder if each Controller is created on single thread for every request, as this could cause problem under heavy loads, where all threads from IIS could be consumed.
Just to explain why I want to inject HttpContext stuff:
one solution would be to get the request in controller action method and pass the needed value all the layers as param until its used somewhere deep in the code.
our wanted solution: all the layers between are not affected by this, and we can use the injected request somewhere deep in code (e.g. in some ConfigurationProvider which is dependent on URL)
Please give me your opinion if I am totally wrong or my suggestions are correct, as this theme seems to be very complicated.
HttpContext.Current gets the current context by Thread (I looked into the implementation directly).
It would be more correct to say that HttpContext is applied to a thread; or a thread "enters" the HttpContext.
Using HttpContext.Current inside of async Task is not possible, because it can run on another Thread.
Not at all; the default behavior of async/await will resume on an arbitrary thread, but that thread will enter the request context before resuming your async method.
The key to this is the SynchronizationContext. I have an MSDN article on the subject if you're not familiar with it. A SynchronizationContext defines a "context" for a platform, with the common ones being UI contexts (WPF, WinPhone, WinForms, etc), the thread pool context, and the ASP.NET request context.
The ASP.NET request context manages HttpContext.Current as well as a few other things such as culture and security. The UI contexts are all tightly associated with a single thread (the UI thread), but the ASP.NET request context is not tied to a specific thread. It will, however, only allow one thread in the request context at a time.
The other part of the solution is how async and await work. I have an async intro on my blog that describes their behavior. In summary, await by default will capture the current context (which is SynchronizationContext.Current unless it is null), and use that context to resume the async method. So, await is automatically capturing the ASP.NET SynchronizationContext and will resume the async method within that request context (thus preserving culture, security, and HttpContext.Current).
If you await ConfigureAwait(false), then you're explicitly telling await to not capture the context.
Note that ASP.NET did have to change its SynchronizationContext to work cleanly with async/await. You have to ensure that the application is compiled against .NET 4.5 and also explicitly targets 4.5 in its web.config; this is the default for new ASP.NET 4.5 projects but must be explicitly set if you upgraded an existing project from ASP.NET 4.0 or earlier.
You can ensure these settings are correct by executing your application against .NET 4.5 and observing SynchronizationContext.Current. If it is AspNetSynchronizationContext, then you're good; if it's LegacyAspNetSynchronizationContext, then the settings are wrong.
As long as the settings are correct (and you are using the ASP.NET 4.5 AspNetSynchronizationContext), then you can safely use HttpContext.Current after an await without worrying about it.
I am using a web api, which is using async/await methodology.
also using
1) HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath
2) System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables
This was working fine for a good amount of time which broke suddenly for no code change.
Spending a lot of time by reverting back to previous old versions, found the missing key causes the issue.
< httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5.2" /> under system.web
I am not an expert technically. But I suggest to add the key to your web config and give it a GO.
I found very good article describing exactly this problem: http://byterot.blogspot.cz/2012/04/aspnet-web-api-series-part-3-async-deep.html?m=1
author investigated deeply, how the ExecuteAsync method is called in the WebApi framework and came to this conclusion:
ASP.NET Web API actions (and all the pipeline methods) will be called asynchronously only if you return a Task or Task<T>. This might sound obvious but none of the pipeline methods with Async suffix will run in their own threads. Using blanket Async could be a misnomer. [UPDATE: ASP.NET team indeed have confirmed that the Async is used to denote methods that return Task and can run asynchronously but do not have to]
What I understood from the article is, that the Action methods are called synchronously, but it is the caller decision.
I created a small test app for this purpose, something like this:
public class ValuesController : ApiController
{
public object Get(string clientId, string specialValue)
{
HttpRequest staticContext = HttpContext.Current.Request;
string staticUrl = staticContext.Url.ToString();
HttpRequestMessage dynamicContext = Request;
string dynamicUrl = dynamicContext.RequestUri.ToString();
return new {one = staticUrl, two = dynamicUrl};
}
}
and one Async version returning async Task<object>
I tried to do a little DOS attack on it with jquery and could not determine any issue until I used await Task.Delay(1).ConfigureAwait(false);, which is obvious it would fail.
What I took from the article is, that the problem is very complicated and Thread switch can happen when using async action method, so it is definetly NOT a good idea to use HttpContext.Current anywhere in the code called from the action methods. But as the controller is created synchronously, using HttpContext.Current in the constructor and as well in dependency injection is OK.
When somebody has another explanation to this problem please correct me as this problem is very complicated an I am still not 100% convinced.
diclaimer:
I ignore for now the problem of self-hosted Web-Api withoud IIS, where HttpContext.Current would not work probably anyway. We now rely on IIS.
I would like to ask, What would be the most suitable scope for my upload photo service in Grails ? I created this PhotoService in my Grails 2.3.4 web app, all it does is to get the request.getFile("myfile") and perform the necessary steps to save it on the hard drive whenever a user wants to upload an image. To illustrate what it looks like, I give a skeleton of these classes.
PhotoPageController {
def photoService
def upload(){
...
photoService.upload(request.getFile("myfile"))
...
}
}
PhotoService{
static scope="request"
def upload(def myFile){
...
// I do a bunch of task to save the photo
...
}
}
The code above isn't the exact code, I just wanted to show the flow. But my question is:
Question:
I couldn't find the exact definition of these different grails scopes, they have a one liner explanation but I couldn't figure out if request scope means for every request to the controller one bean is injected, or each time a request comes to upload action of the controller ?
Thoughts:
Basically since many users might upload at the same time, It's not a good idea to use singleton scope, so my options would be prototype or request I guess. So which one of them works well and also which one only gets created when the PhotoService is accessed only ?
I'm trying to minimize the number of services being injected into the application context and stays as long as the web app is alive, basically I want the service instance to die or get garbage collect at some point during the web app life time rather than hanging around in the memory while there is no use for it. I was thinking about making it session scope so when the user's session is terminated the service is cleaned up too, but in some cases a user might not want to upload any photo and the service gets created for no reason.
P.S: If I move the "def photoService" within the upload(), does that make it only get injected when the request to upload is invoked ? I assume that might throw exception because there would be a delay until Spring injects the service and then the ref to def photoService would be n
I figured out that Singleton scope would be fine since I'm not maintaining the state for each request/user. Only if the service is supposed to maintain state, then we can go ahead and use prototype or other suitable scopes. Using prototype is safer if you think the singleton might cause unexpected behavior but that is left to testing.
I am relatively new to IoC containers so I apologize in advance for my ignorance.
My application is a asp.net 4.0 MVC app that uses the Entity Framework with a Repository layer on top of that. It is a multi tenant application so the connection string that is used varies by the logged in client.
The connection string is determined by a 'key' that gets passed in as part of the route which indicates the client. This route data is only present on the first request of the user's session.
The route looks kind of like this: http://{host}/login/dev/
where 'dev' indicates we are using the dev database.
Currently the IoC container is registering all dependencies in the global.asax Application_Start event handler and I have the 'key' hardcoded as follows:
var cnString = CommonServices.GetDBConnection("dev");
container.RegisterType<IRequestMgmtRecipientRepository, RequestMgmtRecipientRepository>(
new InjectionConstructor(cnString));
Is there a way with Unity to dynamically register the repository based on the logged in client using the route data that is supplied initially?
Note: I am not manually resolving the repositories. They are getting constructed by the container when the controllers get instantiated.
I am stumped.
Thanks!
Quick assumption, you can use the host to identify your tenant.
the following article has a slightly different approach http://www.agileatwork.com/bolt-on-multi-tenancy-in-asp-net-mvc-with-unity-and-nhibernate-part-ii-commingled-data/, its using NH, but it is usable.
based on the above this hacked code may work (not tried/complied the following, not much of a unity user, more of a windsor person :) )
Container.RegisterType<IRequestMgmtRecipientRepository, RequestMgmtRecipientRepository>(new InjectionFactory(c =>
{
//the following you can get via a static class
//HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host, if i remember correctly
var context = c.Resolve<HttpContextBase>();
var host = context.Request.Headers["Host"] ?? context.Request.Url.Host;
var connStr = CommonServices.GetDBConnection("dev_" + host); //assumed
return new RequestMgmtRecipientRepository(connStr);
}));
Scenario 2 (i do not think this was the case)
if the client identifies the Tenant (not the host, ie http: //host1), this suggests you would already need access to a database to access the client information? in this case the database which holds client information, will also need to have enough information to identify the tenant.
the issue with senario 2 will arise around anon uses, which tenant is being accessed.
assuming senario 2, then the InjectionFactory should still work.
hope this helps
In a previous thread one of the respondents said that using wsHttpBinding used a session. Since I'm working in a clustered IIS environment, should I disable this? As far as I know, sessions don't work in a cluster.
If I need to disable this, how do I go about it?
That probably was me :-) By default, your service and the binding used will determine if a session comes into play or not.
If you don't do anything, and use wsHttpBinding, you'll have a session. If you want to avoid that, you should:
switch to another protocol/binding where appropriate
decorate your service contracts with a SessionMode attribute
If you want to stop a service from ever using a session, you can do so like this:
[ServiceContract(Namespace="....", SessionMode=SessionMode.NotAllowed)]
interface IYourSession
{
....
}
and you can decorate your service class with the appropriate instance context mode attributes:
[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.PerCall)]
class YourService : IYourService
{
....
}
With this, you should be pretty much on the safe side and not get any sessions whatsoever.
Marc