Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework-UserIdentity和RoleIdenity ID字段

Question

Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework - Objects UserIdentity and RoleIdenity have Id fields of type string, and thus the tables created have data types nvarchar(128).

Shouldn't these objects Id properties be of type System.Guid and the database have datatypes of uniqueidentifier? Why aren't they? A GUID is inserted on new User and Role creation.

Answer 1

It's most likely because the api is storage provider independent so the kept the field types as generic as possible: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/06/27/introducing-asp-net-identity-membership-system-for-asp-net-applications.aspx

"If your application requirements are that this information might be stored in a different storage mechanism such as SharePoint, Azure Table Service, No Sql databases etc. it is now possible to plug in different storage providers."

Answer 2

Hao Kung from the ASP.NET team wrote this in a comment on this question on how to change id type to int.

So we decided on string keys to avoid having to deal with key serialization issues, the EF default implementation could have used ints as the primary key, GUIDs were just an easy way to generate a random unique string key.

Answer 3

字符串用户ID的另一个原因可能是字符串被硬编码到Claims API中，特别是Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.IdentityExtensions.GetUserId ，后者使用System.Security.Claims.Value ，这两个函数都返回字符串。