ASP.NET Core Identity - get current user

Question

To get the currently logged in user in MVC5, all we had to do was:

using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity;
[Authorize]
public IHttpActionResult DoSomething() {
             


        

Answer 1

If you are using Bearing Token Auth, the above samples do not return an Application User.

Instead, use this:

ClaimsPrincipal currentUser = this.User;
var currentUserName = currentUser.FindFirst(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier).Value;
ApplicationUser user = await _userManager.FindByNameAsync(currentUserName);

This works in apsnetcore 2.0. Have not tried in earlier versions.