Calling the Session before any Controller Action is run in MVC

Question

I have this authentication check in my global.asax file in the Session_OnStart() call:

if (Session[\"Authenticated\"] == null)
        {
            Response.Red         


        

Answer 1

You should create a basecontroller that all your controllers inherit from. then you simply have the logic in one place. i.e.:

public abstract class BaseController : ControllerBase

you could then use the initialize method in the new BaseContoller to do the common logic. i.e.

[edit] - changed to OnActionExecuting, rather than Initialize. This isn't the most elegant of places to do it as we're on the cusp of the view being called. however, it's a starting point.

protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
    // you should be able to get session stuff here!!
    base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
}

and in each controller:

public class AnotherNormalController : BaseController