Strongly Typed @User.Identity

Question

I customize IIdentity and IPrincipal adding a few more properties in IIdentity.

You can obtain a strongly typed instance @User.Identity for my custom class? Without having to make conversions in cast.

I thought of something like razor customize the View, but do not even know where to start.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '11 at 17:03

You could try creating an extension method on IPrincipal

public static class PrincipalExtensions
{
    public static MyIdentity GetMyIdentity (this IPrincipal principal)
    {
        return principal.Identity as MyIdentity;
    }
}

and then get your identity by calling @User.GetMyIdentity()

marcind · Answer 2 · 2011-10-05T02:11:46.443

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You could create a new base type for your views and add to it a property or method that will do the casting. That way you can avoid doing it all the time in your views.

edited Oct 05 '11 at 02:11

answered Oct 04 '11 at 17:04

marcind

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also did not understand "Fin ruin"; Where can I find a good article explaining how to customize my ViewBase (based on the razor) ? – ridermansb Oct 04 '11 at 17:36
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@adrift sorry, some weird typo on my part. Meant "method". – marcind Oct 05 '11 at 02:12

Strongly Typed @User.Identity

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