AuthorizationContext Class

Encapsulates the information that is required for using an AuthorizeAttribute attribute.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  System.Web.Mvc.ControllerContext
    System.Web.Mvc.AuthorizationContext

Namespace:  System.Web.Mvc
Assembly:  System.Web.Mvc (in System.Web.Mvc.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class AuthorizationContext _
    Inherits ControllerContext
public class AuthorizationContext : ControllerContext
public ref class AuthorizationContext : public ControllerContext

The AuthorizationContext type exposes the following members.

Constructors

  Name Description
Public method AuthorizationContext() Initializes a new instance of the AuthorizationContext class.
Public method AuthorizationContext(ControllerContext) Obsolete. Initializes a new instance of the AuthorizationContext class using the specified controller context.
Public method AuthorizationContext(ControllerContext, ActionDescriptor) Initializes a new instance of the AuthorizationContext class using the specified controller context and action descriptor.

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Properties

  Name Description
Public property ActionDescriptor Provides information about the action method that is marked by the AuthorizeAttribute attribute, such as its name, controller, parameters, attributes, and filters.
Public property Controller Gets or sets the controller. (Inherited from ControllerContext.)
Public property HttpContext Gets or sets the HTTP context. (Inherited from ControllerContext.)
Public property IsChildAction Gets a value that indicates whether the associated action method is a child action. (Inherited from ControllerContext.)
Public property ParentActionViewContext Gets an object that contains the view context information for the parent action method. (Inherited from ControllerContext.)
Public property RequestContext Gets or sets the request context. (Inherited from ControllerContext.)
Public property Result Gets or sets the result that is returned by an action method.
Public property RouteData Gets or sets the URL route data. (Inherited from ControllerContext.)

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Methods

  Name Description
Public method Equals Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

When an action method is marked with the AuthorizeAttribute attribute, an AuthorizationContext instance is passed to the OnAuthorization method. The AuthorizationContext class encapsulates information about the controller, HTTP context, request context, route data, action descriptor, and action result.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

System.Web.Mvc Namespace