WebApi External Bearer Authentication and Injecting User into respositories - asp.net-web-api

Question

I have a webapi project and a repositories project.
I have configured to use oauth, which uses owin middleware bearer token authentication.
I have a unitofwork with multiple repositories.
Inside the repositories I want to filter data based on the logged on user.
I would like all repositories to get the logged in user via dependency injection.
I can access the logged on user in the webapi action, but I am struggling to work out if/how I can inject the current user using DI; because the authorization is happening via the webapi Authorize?:
[Authorize(Roles = "User")]
public IQueryable<Folder> Folders()
{
// return UnitOfWork.FolderRepository.All().OrderBy(o=>o.FolderId).Skip(10).Take(50);
var test = HttpContext.Current.GetOwinContext().Authentication;
//test is populated with the logged on user here, but I don't want to set the user details of the UOW in every action in my controllers
return UnitOfWork.FolderRepository.All();
}
So in the action Folders the Authorize annotation logs the user on. But I have already instantiated the unit of work in the controller constructor with DI:
public FolderController(IUnitOfWork uow, UserManager<IdentityUser,int> usermanager)
{
UnitOfWork = uow;
UserManager = usermanager;
}
IOC container:
public static IContainer Initialize()
{
ObjectFactory.Initialize(x =>
{
x.Scan(scan =>
{
scan.TheCallingAssembly();
scan.WithDefaultConventions();
});
x.For<HttpContextBase>()
.HybridHttpOrThreadLocalScoped()
.Use(() => new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current));
x.For<IUnitOfWork>().HttpContextScoped().Use(
() => new UnitOfWork(new BreezeValidator
(new UserManager<AspNet.Identity.SQLServer.IdentityUser, int>(new UserStore(new SqlDatabase()))))
);
}
}
I had tried to pass in HttpContext.Current.GetOwinContext(), but at that point the authorization hasn't taken place and so the Principal has not been set.
I have looked at actionfilters (which are run after the authorization filter), but can't figure out how I would return a new unit of work instance with the logged on user set, back to the controller.
...Or whether I can set a property on the controller from an action filter?
So the question is really, how can I set the user details in all my controller's unitofwork, without lots of duplication?
Thanks
EDIT: I have a working solution, but still not sure it's the right way to go:
I created an action filter and then from there get the controller and set a UserPrincipal property on the controller's unitOfWork property.
using Project1.Web.Controllers;
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web.Http.Controllers;
using System.Web.Http.Filters;
namespace Project1.Web.Filters
{
public class InjectUserAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
public override void OnActionExecuting(HttpActionContext actionContext)
{
var action = actionContext.ControllerContext.Controller;
UowApiController ctrl = (UowApiController)actionContext.ControllerContext.Controller;
ctrl.UnitOfWork.UserPrincipal = actionContext.RequestContext.Principal;
}
}
Then, in my UnitOfWork setter of the UserPrincipal I set the UserPrincipal in the contained repositories:
public IPrincipal UserPrincipal
{
get
{
return this.userPrincipal;
}
set
{
this.userPrincipal = value;
((Repository<Folder>)FolderRepository).UserPrincipal = value;
}
}
This works now, but it doesn't achieve dependency injection.
Also I would like to know if this is a "right" way to do it, or what would be a better approach?

Answer 1

I was searching for the same thing and decided on this. I think this answer will be relevant to you as well.
Proper way to dependency inject authenticated user to my repository class
I've just added a getter to the service classes that accesses the user identity at request time.
public class MyService
{
//ctor...
public IEnumerable<Results> GetResults()
{
return _ResultRepository.GetResultsByUser(UserIdentity);
}
IIdentity UserIdentity
{
get { return Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity; }
}
}