Fluent API for setting up Windows Azure ACS

During the last couple of months I’ve been working for the p&p guys at Microsoft, developing the sample application for a new guide around Windows Azure hybrid application integration.

One of the components of the sample solution is a console application that performs all the steps required to have the ACS and Service Bus namespaces properly configured. This application uses a set of wrappers around the ACS Management Service API.

While this is a great step towards simplifying the life of the developer, after I looked at the resulting code I realized that my life could have been simplified even more. That’s why I decided to spend some of my time developing a fluent API for setting up ACS namespaces.

This is how the API looks like:

var namespaceDesc = new AcsNamespaceDescription(
	"somenamespace", "ManagementClient", "T+bQtqP21BaCLO/8D1hanRdKJF8ZYEV8t32odxP4pYk=");

var acsNamespace = new AcsNamespace(namespaceDesc);

acsNamespace
	.AddGoogleIdentityProvider()
	.AddServiceIdentity(
		si => si
			.Name("Vandelay Industries")
			.Password("Passw0rd!"))
	.AddRelyingParty(
		rp => rp
			.Name("MyCoolWebsite")
			.RealmAddress("http://mycoolwebsite.com/")
			.ReplyAddress("http://mycoolwebsite.com/")
			.AllowGoogleIdentityProvider()
			.SwtToken()
			.TokenLifetime(120)
			.SymmetricKey(
				Convert.FromBase64String("yMryA5VQVmMwrtuiJBfyjMnAJwoT7//fCuM6NwaHjQ1="))
			.AddRuleGroup(rg => rg
				.Name("Rule Group for MyCoolWebsite Relying Party")
				.AddRule(
					rule => rule
						.Description("Google Passthrough")
						.IfInputClaimIssuer().Is("Google")
						.AndInputClaimType().IsOfType(ClaimTypes.Email)
						.AndInputClaimValue().IsAny()
						.ThenOutputClaimType().ShouldBe(ClaimTypes.Name)
						.AndOutputClaimValue().ShouldPassthroughFirstInputClaimValue())
				.AddRule(
					rule => rule
						.Description("ACS rule")
						.IfInputClaimIssuer().IsAcs()
						.AndInputClaimType().IsAny()
						.AndInputClaimValue().IsAny()
						.ThenOutputClaimType().ShouldPassthroughFirstInputClaimType()
						.AndOutputClaimValue().ShouldPassthroughFirstInputClaimValue())));

acsNamespace.SaveChanges(logInfo => Console.WriteLine(logInfo.Message));

You can find more information in the project repository at github.

Oh, and please don’t forget to take a look at the hybrid application integration guide when it becomes available (a draft can be downloaded from here), these guys have been doing an incredible job !

That’s it, I hope this helps