How to get claim inside Asp.Net Core Razor View

Question

I did it in my rc1 project like:

User.Claims.ElementAt(#).Value

But after I switched to rtm it wouldn’t work anymore. When I debug the Razor view the object looks the same but User.Claims is just empty. Any idea what the reason could be.

Answer 1

Assuming you have claims attached to the current principal. In your Razor view:

@((ClaimsIdentity) User.Identity)

This will give you access to the ClaimsIdentity of the current user. In an effort to keep your claims fetching clean you may want to create an extension method for searching claims.

public static string GetSpecificClaim(this ClaimsIdentity claimsIdentity, string claimType)
{
    var claim = claimsIdentity.Claims.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Type == claimType);

    return (claim != null) ? claim.Value : string.Empty;
}

Then you can just access whatever claim you want with:

@((ClaimsIdentity) User.Identity).GetSpecificClaim("someclaimtype")

Hope this helps.

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