I have an object that contains all login data, that's in my controller (it was programmed before switching to MVC3).
I'm trying to add authorization to the site, so so far I have:
public LoginObject MyLoginObject
{
get;
set;
}
[CustomAuthorization()]
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
and
public class CustomAuthorization : AuthorizeAttribute
{
protected override bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
return true;
//should be return myLoginObject.IsLoggedIn;
}
}
Is there anyway to pass MyLoginObject into the AuthorizeAttribute class? If not could I at least pass in a boolean from the object that specifies if the user is authorized or not?
Edit: My solution based on Zonnenberg's advice.
public class LoginObject : IPrincipal // Now extends IPrincipal
{
... //old code
private class IdentityImpl : IIdentity
{
public string AuthenticationType
{
get;
set;
}
public bool IsAuthenticated
{
get;
set;
}
public string Name
{
get;
set;
}
}
public IIdentity Identity
{
get { return new IdentityImpl { AuthenticationType = "Custom Authentication", IsAuthenticated = this.IsLoggedIn, Name = this.Id}; }
}
}
Then I moved the instantiation of loginobject into CustomAuthorization
public override void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
{
// ... Set up LoginObject
filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.User = myLoginObject;
base.OnAuthorization(filterContext);
}
So now logging in, is done inside the authorization, and I can call User to access the login from the controller.
Loginobject that you are talking about? Where does it come from? How is this action requested? What is contained in the request? You just talked about my login object which I am afraid doesn't make much sense to me.