Stratara.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore 4.4.8

Stratara.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore

Derived. The behaviour described here is specified under openspec/specs/. Those specifications are the source; this page explains and illustrates them.

EF Core identity-directory plane for the Stratara stack: user↔tenant membership (many-to-many with tenant-scoped roles), active-tenant selection, and membership-backed authorization.

Contents

• IdentityDirectoryDbContext<TContext> — standalone DbContext hosting all four directory tables (tenant_membership, active_tenant, setting_entry, api_key); derive a concrete context and own its migrations. To fold these into an existing context instead, call modelBuilder.ApplyIdentityDirectoryModel() in its OnModelCreating.
• ModelBuilder.ApplyIdentityDirectoryModel() — adds the same tables to an existing context (for example your ASP.NET Identity context) so they share one migration lineage.
• AddTenantMembershipStore<TContext>() — EF-backed ITenantMembershipStore: forward lookup (a user's tenants), reverse lookup (a tenant's members), upsert, GDPR sweeps per user/tenant, and membership-guarded active-tenant switching.
• MembershipAuthorizationProvider / MembershipAuthorizationProvider<TUser> — the framework's default IAuthorizationProvider: role checks pass on tenant-scoped membership roles, the TUser variant additionally on global ASP.NET Identity roles (platform roles).
• AddMembershipCrossTenantAuthorizer(...) — membership-backed ICrossTenantAuthorizer for strict tenant isolation, with configurable cross-tenant roles for the operator-impersonation path (platform administrators without membership in the target tenant).
• AddPermissionCatalog(...) + AddCatalogPermissionResolver[<TUser>]() — the application's code-declared permission vocabulary with role grants, resolved from membership roles (and optionally global ASP.NET Identity roles) for [RequirePermission] enforcement and HTTP permission policies.
• AddApiKeyStore<TContext>() — API keys and personal access tokens: stk_-prefixed 256-bit keys (hash-only storage), fail-closed validation with expiry/revocation, erasure sweeps. Machine keys are materialized as tenant memberships, so they flow through the same role/permission plane as human actors; PATs act as their bound user. ImportAsync stores a machine key the caller already holds (generated with ApiKeyFormat.CreateRawKey()) for setups where the key must exist before boot — idempotent, never mutating an already-stored key.
• AddSettingCatalog(...) + AddSettingStore<TContext>() — scoped settings plane: code-declared SettingDefinitions, row-per-key EF storage (setting_entry), a Subject-fed ISettingProvider fallback chain (user-in-tenant → user → tenant → global → configuration → default), transparent AES-GCM encryption for IsEncrypted definitions, and per-user/per-tenant erasure sweeps.
• AddTenantMembershipStoreFromContextFactory<TContext>(), AddApiKeyStoreFromContextFactory<TContext>(), AddSettingStoreFromContextFactory<TContext>() — the same three stores, taking a fresh context per operation from IDbContextFactory<TContext> instead of sharing the request's. See below.

One context for the request, or one per operation

The plain registrations give every directory store in a request the same context instance. A database context serves one operation at a time, so directory work issued concurrently inside one request fails on whichever operation arrives second — at the call site that lost the race, not the one that introduced the concurrency. Sharing also means a store's own commit commits whatever else the consumer has left unsaved on that context.

The …FromContextFactory variants remove both: each operation creates its own context and disposes it. In exchange, a store write no longer takes part in a transaction the consumer opened on their own scoped context. That trade is why the shared registration stays the default rather than being replaced.

They require AddDbContextFactory<TContext>(); a missing registration fails at first resolution. Keep the factory's options aligned with the scoped registration — interceptors, query filters and conventions are configured per registration, not per context type. Calling both variants for the same store leaves whichever ran first in place; they do not compose.

Dependencies

• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore (+ Relational)
• Microsoft.Extensions.Identity.Core
• Stratara.Abstractions

Used together with Stratara.Mediator (authorizing mediator, tenant isolation) and Stratara.Identity.AspNetCore (sign-in claims bridge).