Social network API with WCF

• Friday, May 04, 2012 5:44 PM

   

   
  

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  I am developing a custom WCF service that uses a SharePoint 2010 social network API (Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles and Microsoft.Office.Server.ActivityFeed) to get the UserProfileDetails and Newsfeed Activities for a specified user. 
  
  This service is running under the same application pool that is used by MySite host but hosted on different port, In IIS authentication section only windows authentication is enabled, I have enabled asp.net compatibility mode for this service in web.config using <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" /> and in service class by decorating is with [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]. This service uses basicHttpBinding with following details.

  <system.serviceModel>
          <bindings>
              <basicHttpBinding>
                  <binding name="BasicHttpEndpointBinding">
                      <security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">
                          <transport clientCredentialType="Windows" />
                      </security>
                  </binding>
              </basicHttpBinding>
          </bindings>
          <services>
              <service behaviorConfiguration="M.Enterprise.Core.Services.CommonBehavior"
                name="M.Enterprise.Core.Services.Common">
                  <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpEndpointBinding" contract="M.Enterprise.Core.Interfaces.ICommon">
                      <identity>
                          <dns value="localhost" />
                      </identity>
                  </endpoint>
              </service>
              <service behaviorConfiguration="M.Enterprise.Core.Services.SocialBehavior"
                name="M.Enterprise.Core.Services.Social">
                  <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpEndpointBinding" contract="M.Enterprise.Core.Interfaces.ISocial">
                      <identity>
                          <dns value="localhost" />
                      </identity>
                  </endpoint>
              </service>
          </services>
          <behaviors>
              <serviceBehaviors>
                  <behavior name="M.Enterprise.Core.Services.CommonBehavior">
                      <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
                      <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
                  </behavior>
                  <behavior name="M.Enterprise.Core.Services.SocialBehavior">
                      <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
                      <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
                  </behavior>
              </serviceBehaviors>
          </behaviors>
          <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" />
      </system.serviceModel>

  
  

  With the above configuration I am getting "cannot complete this action" error when trying to create a "UserProfileManager" instance with following code, If I wrap the below code with "RunWithElevatedPrivileges" then it does work but it always returns the activities of the Application Pool user but not the one I mention in the "accountName" parameter. Surprisingly same code works well with ASMX service but not with WCF service.

  public ActivityFeedsCollection GetActivitiesForMe(string accountName)
  	{
  		ActivityFeedsCollection activityFeedsCollection = new ActivityFeedsCollection();
  		HttpContext httpContextBackup = HttpContext.Current;
  
  		try
  		{
  			//Empty the HttpContext - Hack
  			HttpContext.Current = null;
  
  			using (SPSite site = new SPSite(MySiteURL))
  			{
  				SPServiceContext context = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);
  				UserProfileManager profileManager = new UserProfileManager(context);
  				UserProfile profile = profileManager.GetUserProfile(accountName);
  
  				ActivityManager activityManager = new ActivityManager(profile, context);
  				ActivityEventsCollection activityEventsForMeCollection = activityManager.GetActivitiesForMe();
  				ActivityTypesCollection activityTypeCollection = activityManager.ActivityTypes;
  
  				activityFeedsCollection = BindActivityFeed(activityEventsForMeCollection, activityTypeCollection);
  			}
  		}
  		catch (Exception ex)
  		{
  			ExceptionHelper.HandleException(activityFeedsCollection, ex);
  		}
  		finally
  		{
  			HttpContext.Current = httpContextBackup;
  		}
  
  		return activityFeedsCollection;
  	}

  
  Can someone please help me to get this working, Am I missing anything in WCF configuration.
  
  Thanks in advance
  Ajay Sawant

  
  

  • Edited by Ajay.Sawant Friday, May 04, 2012 5:45 PM
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