Overriding AuthorizeAttribute in MVC 4

Question

In my application, I want to redirect the authorized user to update their profile page until they have provided required information. If they update profile, then the IsProfileCompleted is set to 'true' in the database.

So, I knows that this can be done by putting check condition in required action of controller. But I want to do this by customizing the AuthorizeAttribute.

I Googled and 'StackOverflowed' for information, but got confused. Please guide me.

Solution

public class MyAuthorizeAttribute: AuthorizeAttribute
{
    protected override bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContextBase httpContext)
    {
        var authorized = base.AuthorizeCore(httpContext);
        if (!authorized)
        {
            // The user is not authorized => no need to go any further
            return false;
        }

        // We have an authenticated user, let's get his username
        string authenticatedUser = httpContext.User.Identity.Name;

        // and check if he has completed his profile
        if (!this.IsProfileCompleted(authenticatedUser))
        {
            // we store some key into the current HttpContext so that 
            // the HandleUnauthorizedRequest method would know whether it
            // should redirect to the Login or CompleteProfile page
            httpContext.Items["redirectToCompleteProfile"] = true;
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    protected override void HandleUnauthorizedRequest(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
    {
        if (filterContext.HttpContext.Items.Contains("redirectToCompleteProfile"))
        {
            var routeValues = new RouteValueDictionary(new
            {
                controller = "someController",
                action = "someAction",
            });
            filterContext.Result = new RedirectToRouteResult(routeValues);
        }
        else
        {
            base.HandleUnauthorizedRequest(filterContext);
        }
    }

    private bool IsProfileCompleted(string user)
    {
        // You know what to do here => go hit your database to verify if the
        // current user has already completed his profile by checking
        // the corresponding field
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

and then you could decorate your controller actions with this custom attribute:

[MyAuthorize]
public ActionResult FooBar()
{
    ...
}

Comments

[iamraviraj]

I am using this example for custom authorize in my mvc app. but, it doesn't redirect it to return url. Did I missed something?

[iamraviraj]

Once again I am here,above issue has been resolved. I am using session based login and sometime it executes code that should be executed after authorization. I am using static properties for session keys. Can you help me with this? protected override bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContextBase httpContext) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(CurrentUser.UserName) || CurrentUser.UserName == " ") return false; return true; }

[radbyx]

Is this answer compatible with MVC 5 or should we make any changes?