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anand
anand

Reputation: 3

I would like to control views based on user role in MVC C#

I would like to control views in my action based on user roles. Roles are stored in database, I have overwritten my AuthorizeCore to return true or false based on who is authorized to access the view. I need to know the userRole in my controller.

How can I determine the role(s) for the current user?

[Authorize]
public ActionResult Index() {

if (userRole = "Admin") { return View("Admin");}
else {return View("Viewer");
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 553

Answers (1)

John Wright
John Wright

Reputation: 4597

Assuming your controller extends System.Web.Mvc.Controller, then you can access the User property on the base class. This will give you an IPrincipal instance for the authenticated user, which includes .IsInRole(string role):

public ActionResult Index() {

    if (User.IsInRole("Admin")) { return View("Admin");}
    else {return View("Viewer");
}

Note: If your configured role provider doesn't automattically support using .IsInRole, you can implement your own db lookups using User.Identity.Name

Upvotes: 1

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