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POASP.NET MVC - Set custom IIdentity or IPrincipal
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copied!<p>I need to do something fairly simple: in my ASP.NET MVC application, I want to set a custom IIdentity / IPrincipal. Whichever is easier / more suitable. I want to extend the default so that I can call something like <code>User.Identity.Id</code> and <code>User.Identity.Role</code>. Nothing fancy, just some extra properties.</p> <p>I've read tons of articles and questions but I feel like I'm making it harder than it actually is. I thought it would be easy. If a user logs on, I want to set a custom IIdentity. So I thought, I will implement <code>Application_PostAuthenticateRequest</code> in my global.asax. However, that is called on every request, and I don't want to do a call to the database on every request which would request all the data from the database and put in a custom IPrincipal object. That also seems very unnecessary, slow, and in the wrong place (doing database calls there) but I could be wrong. Or where else would that data come from?</p> <p>So I thought, whenever a user logs in, I can add some necessary variables in my session, which I add to the custom IIdentity in the <code>Application_PostAuthenticateRequest</code> event handler. However, my <code>Context.Session</code> is <code>null</code> there, so that is also not the way to go.</p> <p>I've been working on this for a day now and I feel I'm missing something. This shouldn't be too hard to do, right? I'm also a bit confused by all the (semi)related stuff that comes with this. <code>MembershipProvider</code>, <code>MembershipUser</code>, <code>RoleProvider</code>, <code>ProfileProvider</code>, <code>IPrincipal</code>, <code>IIdentity</code>, <code>FormsAuthentication</code>.... Am I the only one who finds all this very confusing?</p> <p>If someone could tell me a simple, elegant, and efficient solution to store some extra data on a IIdentity without all the extra fuzz.. that would be great! I know there are similar questions on SO but if the answer I need is in there, I must've overlooked.</p>

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