.net MVC Web API : How can I authenticate user in an attribute and then store it to be used in controller?

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I am building a RESTful API with the .net MVC Web API framework, and want to store some user information that comes in for updates/saves.

I am using an authorization attribute that authorizes based on tokens. When a valid token is seen, I want to grab that user's information from the database, and store the user object to be used inside the controller.

Is there an easy way to do this? It looks like in the regular .net MVC you would just store the user in the HttpContext. That seems to no longer exist though.

Fitzchak Yitzchaki · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-18 06:29:38Z

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You can do custom parameter binding to the user object, by using an User object in the action parameter and registering a custom binder that will know how to handle that.

See here how to do parameter binding with Web API: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmstall/archive/2012/04/16/how-webapi-does-parameter-binding.aspx

answered Jun 18, 2012 at 6:29

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Rebecca · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-26 11:40:24Z

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In the RC, you can get information about the current user through the ApiController's User property:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.http.apicontroller.user(v=vs.108)

edited Jun 26, 2012 at 11:40

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answered Jun 18, 2012 at 10:41

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