ASP.NET MVC Custom Authorization

Question

I have a question about custom authorization in MVC.

I have a site that I want to limit access to certain pages, depending on their group membership. Now I have see

Answer 1

The AuthorizationContext (parameter to OnAuthorize) provides access to the Controller, RouteData, HttpContext, etc. You should be able to use these in a custom authorization filter to do what you want. Below is a sample of code from a RoleOrOwnerAttribute derived from AuthorizeAttribute.

public override void OnAuthorization( AuthorizationContext filterContext )
{
    if (filterContext == null)
    {
        throw new ArgumentNullException( "filterContext" );
    }

    if (AuthorizeCore( filterContext.HttpContext )) // checks roles/users
    {
        SetCachePolicy( filterContext );
    }
    else if (!filterContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
    {
        // auth failed, redirect to login page
        filterContext.Result = new HttpUnauthorizedResult();
    }
    // custom check for global role or ownership
    else if (filterContext.HttpContext.User.IsInRole( "SuperUser" ) || IsOwner( filterContext ))
    {
        SetCachePolicy( filterContext );
    }
    else
    {
        ViewDataDictionary viewData = new ViewDataDictionary();
        viewData.Add( "Message", "You do not have sufficient privileges for this operation." );
        filterContext.Result = new ViewResult { MasterName = this.MasterName, ViewName = this.ViewName, ViewData = viewData };
    }

}

// helper method to determine ownership, uses factory to get data context,
// then check the specified route parameter (property on the attribute)
// corresponds to the id of the current user in the database.
private bool IsOwner( AuthorizationContext filterContext )
{
    using (IAuditableDataContextWrapper dc = this.ContextFactory.GetDataContextWrapper())
    {
        int id = -1;
        if (filterContext.RouteData.Values.ContainsKey( this.RouteParameter ))
        {
            id = Convert.ToInt32( filterContext.RouteData.Values[this.RouteParameter] );
        }

        string userName = filterContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.Name;

        return dc.Table().Where( p => p.UserName == userName && p.ParticipantID == id ).Any();
    }
}


protected void SetCachePolicy( AuthorizationContext filterContext )
{
    // ** IMPORTANT **
    // Since we're performing authorization at the action level, the authorization code runs
    // after the output caching module. In the worst case this could allow an authorized user
    // to cause the page to be cached, then an unauthorized user would later be served the
    // cached page. We work around this by telling proxies not to cache the sensitive page,
    // then we hook our custom authorization code into the caching mechanism so that we have
    // the final say on whether a page should be served from the cache.
    HttpCachePolicyBase cachePolicy = filterContext.HttpContext.Response.Cache;
    cachePolicy.SetProxyMaxAge( new TimeSpan( 0 ) );
    cachePolicy.AddValidationCallback( CacheValidateHandler, null /* data */);
}