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1/17/2008 7:14 PM

edulink

Joined: 12/21/2006

Posts: 12

PortalId is NULL

Hey all,

I am using the latest DNN upgrading an older version to the latest. All in all it has been a relatively smooth migration from .NET 1.1 older DNN to the latest DNN with .NET 2.0. The problem I am having has been running me in circles for a few hours now.

I have my custom modules that extend "DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.PortalModuleBase" and my cusom controls that extend "DotNetNuke.Framework.UserControlBase".

All seem to work fine under normal usage (non-AJAX). Here is the problem. I am using AJAX.NET and in the older version all works perfectly. In the latest version here is what happens. On a normal page load if I set a break point "PortalId" will have the correct portal id. When an AJAX call comes in "PortalId" will be NULL if my AJAX call comes in on a module extended page. If the AJAX call comes on a UserControl, PortalId is populated correctly. Is there anything anyone has came across similar to this??? I have been trying different things for hours now and i just can't see to figure out why the AJAX calls from controls work fine, yet calls from modules are undefined.

Thanks in advance

1/21/2008 11:33 AM

edulink

Joined: 12/21/2006

Posts: 12

Re: PortalId is NULL

BUMP!!

2/4/2008 11:37 AM

edulink

Joined: 12/21/2006

Posts: 12

Re: PortalId is NULL

ANYONE??? I am still having this problem. Until I figure this out I am stuck on a super old version of DNN which makes my life a nightmare. Any help, insight, or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Thanks

2/7/2008 2:58 PM

edulink

Joined: 12/21/2006

Posts: 12

Re: PortalId is NULL

I have spent some more hours looking into this, and in fact something is different when the AJAX requests come in. I debugged the DNN code, and in the PortalController.vb function GetCurrentPortalSettings() HttpContext.Current.Items seems to be different on a regular request compared to AJAX request.

This is the AJAX request

HttpContext.Current.Items    Count = 6    System.Collections.IDictionary {System.Collections.Hashtable}
    ["AspSession"]    {System.Web.SessionState.HttpSessionState}
    ["CheckedUsersOnlineCookie"]    "true"
    ["UserInfo"]    {DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo}
    ["UrlRewrite:OriginalUrl"]    "http://localhost/DNN/ajax/ASP.desktopmodules_tester_controls_messagerecordercontrol_ascx,App_Web_trobdj-6.ashx?_method=GetMessageStatusUpdate&_session=r"
    ["AspSessionIDManagerInitializeRequestCalled"]    true
    ["httprequestfilter.attemptedinstall"]    true

Now this is the regular request.

HttpContext.Current.Items    {System.Collections.Hashtable}    System.Collections.IDictionary
    Items    {Length=8}    System.Collections.KeyValuePairs()
        (0)    True {Boolean}
        (1)    {DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo}
        (2)    True {Boolean}
        (3)    {DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings}
            Key    "PortalSettings" {String}    Object
            Value    {DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings}    Object
        (4)    "http://localhost/DNN/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx"
        (5)    {System.Web.SessionState.HttpSessionState}
        (6)    {DotNetNuke.Services.Personalization.PersonalizationInfo}
        (7)    "true"

Most obvious thing here is the size difference. And on the AJAX request the missing of "PortalSettings" in the items is ultimatrely the problem. Also it appears that one is a IDictionary<Hastable> and the other is IDictionary<KeyValuePair>. I have searched to try and see where this could be set, and I only found one place taht was not what i was looking for. Can anyone please help???

3/4/2008 3:26 PM

edulink

Joined: 12/21/2006

Posts: 12

Re: PortalId is NULL

This is DNN 4.8.0

Appearantly this is too deep for most of the people here????

Anyhow, I'd like to hear from a Core developer on the new information I have found.

My last post was correct in that the 2 items missing from my AJAX request are Context.Items["PortalSettings"] and Context.Items["Personalization"]

These are not getting set from one of the modules. The one I am particularly concerned with is the "PortalSettings". I dug into the HttpModules (specifically UrlRewriteModule) and found these lines that are causing that not to be set.

If PortalId = -1 Then
    If Not Request.Url.LocalPath.ToLower.EndsWith(glbDefaultPage.ToLower) Then
        ' allows requests for aspx pages in custom folder locations to be processed
        Exit Sub

This is in UrlRewriteModule.vb LINE 422, which exits the method since my AJAX request ends with .ashx and not default.aspx, so does not go on to set the following on LINE 460

app.Context.Items.Add("PortalSettings", _portalSettings)

What to do? I need to be able to access the PortalSettings class from my AJAX requests. I have tried to disabled friendly URL's and it hasn't changed the end result. ANYONE have ANY ideas???

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