[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: Custom Authentication against 3rd party library

[david.ondracek@bayoo.net]

Hi, I have an actually pretty simple task but I am having a really hard time to achieve it: We have a library providing basically all membership- and profile-related data and action and exposing those via defined interfaces and models. For example there's a GetUser(id) method, a Login(username, password) method, ResetPassword etc. etc. So technically all I would need to do is just to write a wrapper to be used by sitefinity which will proxy the authentication and profile related calls to the library. Unfortunately, this " just " is getting bigger and bigger the more I try to figure out the "right" way. First I've tried to implement a custom MembershipDataProvider (like here: Full code - Sitefinity CMS Administration ), but when it came to GetUsers() I had to let it go, because although there IS the possibility to create a IQueryable, I cannot Select the Model.User objects from my entities bcs the UserName property is read-only and calling the setUserName method in the initializer will cause an enumeration of the IQueryable. Btw we have about 150k of users in the database so working on a List instead of IQueryable is not an option. Afterwards I did a lot of retries but with minor success... Any Ideas how I could achieve what I need? the Requirements are pretty simple: the library to be used for frontend users only all library users will have the same role (eCommerce Customer) with no access to the backend no copy of the customer data to sitefinity db (legal req.) authentication and profile methods wrapped for the library calls Please help

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