In WebForm we could write a method in MasterPage.cs and it ran in each request .
e.g:
MasterPage.cs
--------------
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
CheckCookie();
}
How can we do something like this in MVC ?
In WebForm we could write a method in MasterPage.cs and it ran in each request .
e.g:
MasterPage.cs
--------------
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
CheckCookie();
}
How can we do something like this in MVC ?
In ASP.NET MVC you could write a custom global action filter.
UPDATE:
As requested in the comments section here's an example of how such filter might look like:
public class MyActionFilterAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
var fooCookie = filterContext.HttpContext.Request.Cookies["foo"];
// TODO: do something with the foo cookie
}
}
If you want to perform authorization based on the value of the cookie, it would be more correct to implement the IAuthorizationFilter interface:
public class MyActionFilterAttribute : FilterAttribute, IAuthorizationFilter
{
public void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
{
var fooCookie = filterContext.HttpContext.Request.Cookies["foo"];
if (fooCookie == null || fooCookie.Value != "foo bar")
{
filterContext.Result = new HttpUnauthorizedResult();
}
}
}
If you want this action filter to run on each request for each controller action you could register it as a global action filter in your global.asax in the RegisterGlobalFilters
method:
public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters)
{
filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute());
filters.Add(new MyActionFilterAttribute());
}
And if you need this to execute only for particular actions or controllers simply decorate them with this attribute:
[MyActionFilter]
public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
...
}
You could use Global.asax Application_AcquireRequestState
method which will get called on every request:
protected void Application_AcquireRequestState(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//...
}