Handling claims transformation in an OWIN middleware in .NET MVC part 4

Introduction

In the previous post we turned our claims transformation code into OWIN middleware. We went through the process of creating a component – the ClaimsTransformationComponent – and registering it with OWIN in Startup.cs. We set the current claims principal in our component which is then available within the controllers.

In this post which finishes this series we’ll diverge a little from our main topic and take a look at how we can add dependencies to an OWIN component.

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Handling claims transformation in an OWIN middleware in .NET MVC part 3

Introduction

In the previous post we built upon our MVC claims transformation demo. Specifically we saw how to take the incoming claims and add a couple of custom ones by pretending that we query some data store. We wired up all the demo code in the HomeController.

The goal of this closing post is to reorganise the claims-related code into OWIN middleware.

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Handling claims transformation in an OWIN middleware in .NET MVC part 2

Introduction

In the previous post we laid the foundations for this short series. We went through a refresher of claims and OWIN and started building a simple ASP.NET MVC web project to investigate what’s available about the user of the current thread in a controller. We saw that by default the only claim available about a user might be their name, unless they are anonymous of course.

In this post we’ll continue to explore claims of authenticated users.

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Handling claims transformation in an OWIN middleware in .NET MVC part 1

Introduction

Claims have become widespread in software projects to tighten the security aspects of an application. We looked at claims before on this blog – see the link in the next paragraph – but time goes by and new features have been added to this technology lately. This is especially true as far as OWIN is concerned. In this mini-series we’ll concentrate on a very narrow aspect of claims in .NET MVC: claims transformation in OWIN middleware.

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