ASP.NET MVC 3: How to get User's Role in a Controller Method?

Question

I want to be able to

Get a list of roles of the current authenticated user.
Filter the data provided to that user based on their role.

I see ways to check if the user is in a particular role, but I don't care what role they participate. The database will know what roles are allowed to see what data. I need to submit a collection of these roles to the data service to filter the data based on those roles.

So first step is how do I get all roles associated with the current user in a controller method?

EDIT:

This seemed to work out nicely:

Roles.GetRolesForUser(User.Identity.Name)

Supporting answers still welcome.

score 23 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 01 '11 at 21:07

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Roles.GetRolesForUser(User.Identity.Name)

edited Jun 01 '11 at 21:07

DarthJDG

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answered Jun 01 '11 at 04:09

Zachary Scott

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did you answer your own question? – Glenn Ferrie Jun 01 '11 at 04:12
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Well, it was up there forever so I could have either deleted it, or answered it. :) – Zachary Scott Jun 03 '11 at 19:27
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It's preferable for somebody to answer their own question to not having a clearly defined answer when somebody comes searching. Thank you for doing so. – Jeff Lauder Dec 12 '11 at 20:36

score 13 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 08 '13 at 14:26

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This can be done with a single statement:

User.IsInRole("admin");

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While this does tell you if a user is in a specific role or not, it does not address the original question which asked how to get a list or array of all the user's roles. – Funka Jun 11 '14 at 21:22

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '12 at 21:51

If anyone need this information, in case your user has many roles but you're looking for one, you could do this:(i thought id share)

@if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
{
   string[] roles = Roles.GetRolesForUser();
   foreach (string role in roles)
   {
       if (role.Contains("admin"))
       {
           <li>@Html.ActionLink("Administration", "Admin", "Movies")</li>
           break;
       }
   }
}

ASP.NET MVC 3: How to get User's Role in a Controller Method?

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