AuthorizeAttribute with Roles but not hard-coding the Role values

Question

Is it possible to add the Roles but not hard-coding the values like:

[Authorize(Roles=\"members, admin\")]

I would like to retrieve these r

Answer 1

You can create your custom authorization attribute, that will compare user roles and roles from your configuration.

public class ConfigAuthorizationAttribute: AuthorizeAttribute
{
    private readonly IActionRoleConfigService configService;
    private readonly IUserRoleService roleService;

    private string actionName;

    public ConfigAuthorizationAttribute()
    {
        configService = new ActionRoleConfigService();
        roleService = new UserRoleService();
    }

    protected override void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
    {
        actionName = filterContext.ActionDescription.ActionName;
        base.OnAuthorization(filterContext);
    }

    protected override bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContextBase httpContext)
    {
        var availableRoles = configService.GetActionRoles(actionName); // return list of strings
        var userName = httpContext.User.Identity.Name;
        var userRoles = roleService.GetUserRoles(userName); // return list of strings
        return availableRoles.Any(x => userRoles.Contains(x));
    }
}

I hope it helps you.