ASP.NET MVC - Set custom IIdentity or IPrincipal

Question

I need to do something fairly simple: in my ASP.NET MVC application, I want to set a custom IIdentity / IPrincipal. Whichever is easier / more suitable. I want to extend the

Answer 1

I tried the solution suggested by LukeP and found that it doesn't support the Authorize attribute. So, I modified it a bit.

public class UserExBusinessInfo
{
    public int BusinessID { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

public class UserExInfo
{
    public IEnumerable BusinessInfo { get; set; }
    public int? CurrentBusinessID { get; set; }
}

public class PrincipalEx : ClaimsPrincipal
{
    private readonly UserExInfo userExInfo;
    public UserExInfo UserExInfo => userExInfo;

    public PrincipalEx(IPrincipal baseModel, UserExInfo userExInfo)
        : base(baseModel)
    {
        this.userExInfo = userExInfo;
    }
}

public class PrincipalExSerializeModel
{
    public UserExInfo UserExInfo { get; set; }
}

public static class IPrincipalHelpers
{
    public static UserExInfo ExInfo(this IPrincipal @this) => (@this as PrincipalEx)?.UserExInfo;
}


    [HttpPost]
    [AllowAnonymous]
    [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
    public async Task Login(LoginModel details, string returnUrl)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            AppUser user = await UserManager.FindAsync(details.Name, details.Password);

            if (user == null)
            {
                ModelState.AddModelError("", "Invalid name or password.");
            }
            else
            {
                ClaimsIdentity ident = await UserManager.CreateIdentityAsync(user, DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie);
                AuthManager.SignOut();
                AuthManager.SignIn(new AuthenticationProperties { IsPersistent = false }, ident);

                user.LastLoginDate = DateTime.UtcNow;
                await UserManager.UpdateAsync(user);

                PrincipalExSerializeModel serializeModel = new PrincipalExSerializeModel();
                serializeModel.UserExInfo = new UserExInfo()
                {
                    BusinessInfo = await
                        db.Businesses
                        .Where(b => user.Id.Equals(b.AspNetUserID))
                        .Select(b => new UserExBusinessInfo { BusinessID = b.BusinessID, Name = b.Name })
                        .ToListAsync()
                };

                JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();

                string userData = serializer.Serialize(serializeModel);

                FormsAuthenticationTicket authTicket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(
                         1,
                         details.Name,
                         DateTime.Now,
                         DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(15),
                         false,
                         userData);

                string encTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(authTicket);
                HttpCookie faCookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, encTicket);
                Response.Cookies.Add(faCookie);

                return RedirectToLocal(returnUrl);
            }
        }
        return View(details);
    }

And finally in Global.asax.cs

    protected void Application_PostAuthenticateRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        HttpCookie authCookie = Request.Cookies[FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName];

        if (authCookie != null)
        {
            FormsAuthenticationTicket authTicket = FormsAuthentication.Decrypt(authCookie.Value);
            JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
            PrincipalExSerializeModel serializeModel = serializer.Deserialize(authTicket.UserData);
            PrincipalEx newUser = new PrincipalEx(HttpContext.Current.User, serializeModel.UserExInfo);
            HttpContext.Current.User = newUser;
        }
    }

Now I can access the data in views and controllers simply by calling

User.ExInfo()

To log out I just call

AuthManager.SignOut();

where AuthManager is

HttpContext.GetOwinContext().Authentication