Breeze.Sharp - Need ability to specify UseDefaultCredentials in DataService's HttpClient construction

Question

As of 0.5.4 check-in, the Breeze.Sharp/DataService.cs::InitializeHttpClient method creates an HttpClient with the default constructor. My intranet breeze web api service has a .Net console application, which needs to be authenticated by the service using Windows authentication. In a pre-breeze universe, I would have created an HttpClient object that takes the following HttpClientHandler in the constructor, which would then send the user's credentials along with the http request:

HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler()
{
    UseDefaultCredentials = true
};  

So the request here is to be able inject my own HttpClient into the DataService, or otherwise specify this setting when I construct an EntityManager.

For now, I have resolved the issue by modifying my own instance of the Breeze.Sharp library by updating the DataService constructor to optionally take in an HttpClientHandler, like so:

public DataService(String serviceName, HttpClientHandler handler = null) { ... }

I would prefer to keep using the main library so hopefully this issue gets tracked and resolved for everyone else. :)

Answer 1

Updated 6/3/2014

This is now supported in Breeze 0.5.5, available now

Previous post

This makes sense, I'll try to look into it before the new release. ... and thanks for the input.

Answer 2

Thanks Jay, I have integrated release 5.5 into my project and no longer need a private build. :)