That's going to depend entirely on WHEN and WHERE you
assign your custom object to the Context.CurrentUser.
If you've assigned it at every request, then the cast
should work. If you're just assigning your custom object at the initial login,
and you're relying on the ASP.NET forms-based authentication to determine if the
user is authenticated, then you're going to get a GenericPrincipal which will
never cast to your custom object.
The ASP.NET samples don't really speak very clearly about
this, so it's a common mistake. So, to speak declaratively: if you want access
to your custom IPrincipal, you MUST assign it to the Context.CurrentUser at
each request.
This can lead to many hits on the database, unless you've
got the second-level cache enabled. One of the things I'll do is allow the
GenericPrincipal to be assigned for resources that will not processed in the
ASP.NET pipeline, and therefore a GenericPrincipal is acceptable (like
images).
- Richard
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Berkenbosch
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:53 PM
To: castleproject-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Castle-users] Getting IPrinciple as Model Object
I suppose this is something rather trivial but I can;t seem te find it. I would like to display the properties of the current logged in user. This is ofcourse an IPrinciple.
Suppose I have an User model that simply implements the IPrinciple interface. I then should be able to do something like :
MyModel.User user = Context.CurrentUser as MyModel.User
Or is the wine that I've been drinking the issue ? :)
Thanks
Peter
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