Interface IRVAuthenticationProvider

The interface that must be implemented and registered when adding Reveal in Startup ConfigureServices. It returns credentials to be used when getting data from a given data source.

Namespace: Reveal.Sdk.Data

Assembly: Infragistics.Reveal.SDK.Server.dll

Syntax

public interface IRVAuthenticationProvider

Examples

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    ...
    services
        .AddMvc()
        .AddReveal(builder =>
            {   
                builder.AddAuthenticationProvider<MyAuthenticationProvider>(); //register the type
                builder.AddAuthenticationProvider(new MyAuthenticationProvider()); //or you could register a specific instance this way
            });
    ...
}

Methods

ResolveCredentialsAsync(IRVUserContext, RVDashboardDataSource)

Returns the credentials to use for this data source, null means there are no credentials associated and the data loading process will fail.

Declaration

Task<IRVDataSourceCredential> ResolveCredentialsAsync(IRVUserContext userContext, RVDashboardDataSource dataSource)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
IRVUserContext	userContext	The user details credentials are being returned for
Reveal.Sdk.Data.RVDashboardDataSource	dataSource	The data source to return credentials for

Returns

Type	Description
System.Threading.Tasks.Task<IRVDataSourceCredential>	The credentials to use for this data source