How do we get the current user, within an secure ApiController action, without passing the userName or userId as a parameter?
We assume that this is available, beca
string userName;
string userId;
if (HttpContext.Current != null && HttpContext.Current.User != null
&& HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name != null)
{
userName = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;
userId = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.GetUserId();
}
Or based on Darrel Miller's comment, maybe use this to retrieve the HttpContext first.
// get httpContext
object httpContext;
actionContext.Request.Properties.TryGetValue("MS_HttpContext", out httpContext);
See also:
How to access HTTPContext from within your Web API action