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Tony
Tony

Reputation: 12715

ASP.NET MVC 2 How to check the user's permissions before action is executed?

I have a controller, and to invoke all its actions the user has to have privilages to do that. The question is how to check that before action is executed? If the user doesn't have permissions I want to render a View with error message. I tried to use overriden OnActionExecuting method, but I can't return a View from that method

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1272

Answers (2)

giubueno
giubueno

Reputation: 58

In the class Controller this method is protected.

Upvotes: 0

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1039548

I tried to use overriden OnActionExecuting method, but I can't return a View from that method

As a matter of fact you can:

public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
    bool userHasPermissions = CheckUserPermissionsFromSomewhere(filterContext);
    if (!userHasPermissions)
    {
        filterContext.Result = new ViewResult
        {
            // you can also specify master page and view model
            ViewName = "Forbidden"
        };
    }
    else
    {
        base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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