I have an Extension Method that verifies if the user is able to see a portion of the webpage, based on a Role.
If I simple remove the content, this brings me more work as all the missing forms will not be correctly registered upon save and I have to deal with this behavior by modifying all my code, so I thought why not just use display:none;
attribute?
I would like to have something like:
@using(Html.RoleAccess(currentUser, RoleAccessType.Content_General_Website))
{
...
}
and that this would write something like:
<div class="role_Content_General_Website" style="display:none;">
...
</div>
or use display:block;
if the user has access...
I can create a simple HtmlHelper
but how do I write one that also outputs the ending </div>
?
public static string RoleAccess(
this HtmlHelper helper,
UserInfo user,
RoleAccessType role)
{
return
String.Format(
"<div class='role_{0}' style='display:{1}'>",
role.ToString(), user.HasAccess(role));
}
public static class HtmlExtensions
{
private class RoleContainer : IDisposable
{
private readonly TextWriter _writer;
public RoleContainer(TextWriter writer)
{
_writer = writer;
}
public void Dispose()
{
_writer.Write("</div>");
}
}
public static IDisposable RoleAccess(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string role)
{
var user = htmlHelper.ViewContext.HttpContext.User;
var style = "display:none;";
if (user.IsInRole(role))
{
style = "display:block;";
}
var writer = htmlHelper.ViewContext.Writer;
writer.WriteLine("<div class=\"role_Content_General_Website\" style=\"" + style + "\">");
return new RoleContainer(writer);
}
}
and then you can use it like this:
@using(Html.RoleAccess("Administrator"))
{
...
}
You could obviously adapt the arguments of the helper to match your requirements:
public static IDisposable RoleAccess(
this HtmlHelper helper,
UserInfo user,
RoleAccessType role
)
{
var style = "display:none;";
if (user.HasAccess(role))
{
style = "display:block;";
}
var writer = htmlHelper.ViewContext.Writer;
writer.WriteLine("<div class=\"role_" + role.ToString() + "\" style=\"" + style + "\">");
return new RoleContainer(writer);
}