Return a custom auth response object from ServiceStack authentication

Question

Is it possible to return a custom auth response? I already have my own custom authentication provider that inherits from CredentialsAuthProvider.

I want to return th

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you want to return a custom response after a user authenticates against '/auth/credentials'. Since you already have your own CredentialsAuthProvider I think you could just override Authenticate and return your own response.

Subclass of CredentialsAuthProvider

public class MyCredentialsAuthProvider : CredentialsAuthProvider
{
    public override object Authenticate(ServiceStack.ServiceInterface.IServiceBase authService, IAuthSession session, Auth request)
    {
        //let normal authentication happen
        var authResponse = (AuthResponse)base.Authenticate(authService, session, request);

        //return your own class, but take neccessary data from AuthResponse
        return new
            {
                UserName = authResponse.UserName,
                SessionId = authResponse.SessionId,
                ReferrerUrl = authResponse.ReferrerUrl,
                SessionExpires = DateTime.Now
            };

    }
}