Neo4j.AspNet.Identity

Custom ASP.NET Identity provider for the Neo4j Graph Database

Purpose

ASP.NET MVC 5 shipped with a new Identity system (in the Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Core package) in order to support both local login and remote logins via OpenID/OAuth, but only ships with an Entity Framework provider (Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework).

Features

• Drop-in replacement ASP.NET Identity with Neo4j as the backing store.
• Contains the same IdentityUser class used by the EntityFramework provider in the MVC 5 project template
• Supports additional profile properties on your application's user model.
• Provides UserStore implementation that implements the same interfaces as the EntityFramework version:
  • IUserStore
  • IUserLoginStore
  • IUserRoleStore
  • IUserClaimStore
  • IUserPasswordStore
  • IUserSecurityStampStore

Instructions

These instructions assume you know how to set up Neo4j within an MVC application.

1. Create a new ASP.NET MVC 5 project, choosing the Individual User Accounts authentication type. 1.1 Remove the Entity Framework packages and replace with Neo4j Identity: 1.2 Uninstall-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework 1.3 Uninstall-Package EntityFramework 1.4 Install-Package Neo4j.AspNet.Identity

2. In ~/Models/IdentityModels.cs: 2.1 Remove the namespace: Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework 2.2 Add the namespace: Neo4j.AspNet.Identity 2.3 Remove the ApplicationDbContext class completely.

3. In ~/Controllers/AccountController.cs 3.1 Remove the namespace: Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework 3.2 Add the connection string name to the constructor of the UserStore. Or empty constructor will use DefaultConnection

    public AccountController()
    {
        this.UserManager = new UserManager<ApplicationUser>(
            new UserStore<ApplicationUser>("http://localhost:7474/db/data" /* or use the Web.config connectionstrings key*/);
    }
   

Credits

A special thank to David Boike and Jonathan Sheely for the inspiration provided with their projects. RavenDB ASP.NET Identity and MongoDB ASP.NET Identity respectively. Much love!