I am new to MVC and I am trying to build a small test application to get a clear idea about how the SimpleMembershipProvider works in MVC 4. I have created two Roles - Student and Teacher. I have only one user with Teacher Role assigned(hard coded in Configuration.cs), who is going to create Students and while creating a new student, the Teacher will also generate the UserID and password for that student.The newly created student will then log on to the application with the userid and password as created by the Teacher and will do certain tasks. The problem is whenever the user with Teacher Role creates a student, the current logged in user with Teacher Role gets logged out and the newly created student gets logged in. What I have done is, I have not kept any field for userid and password in Student Model. I have used a partial view bound to RegisterModel(from AccountModels) to generate the fields for Username and password while creating new Student. I have kept StudentID in UserProfile Model. This is my code as shown below for further clarity.
Student Model
public class Student
{
[DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
public int Id { get; set; }
[DisplayName("First Name")]
public string FirstName { get; set; }
[DisplayName("Last Name")]
public string LastName { get; set; }
[DisplayName("Date of Birth")]
public string DateOfBirth { get; set; }
public Gender Gender { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Course> Courses { get; set; }
}
UserProfile Model
public class UserProfile
{
public int UserId { get; set; }
public string UserName { get; set; }
public int StudentId { get; set; }
}
This is from Configuration.cs where I am creating the Roles and a user with Teacher Role
private void SeedMemebership()
{
WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection("DefaultConnection1",
"UserProfile", "UserId", "UserName", autoCreateTables: true);
var roles = (SimpleRoleProvider)Roles.Provider;
var membership = (SimpleMembershipProvider)Membership.Provider;
if (!roles.RoleExists("Teacher"))
{
roles.CreateRole("Teacher");
}
if (!roles.RoleExists("Student"))
{
roles.CreateRole("Student");
}
if (membership.GetUser("UserFoo", false) == null)
{
membership.CreateUserAndAccount("UserFoo", "Password");
}
if (!roles.GetRolesForUser("UserFoo").Contains("Teacher"))
{
roles.AddUsersToRoles(new[] { "UserFoo" }, new[] { "Teacher" });
}
}
Controller Actions To Create Student-
//
// GET: /Student/Create
[Authorize(Roles = "Teacher", Users = "UserFoo")]
public ActionResult Create()
{
return View();
}
//
// POST: /Student/Create
[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Create(Student student, RegisterModel model)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
try
{
db.Students.Add(student);
db.SaveChanges();
WebSecurity.CreateUserAndAccount(model.UserName, model.Password, new { StudentId = student.Id });
WebSecurity.Login(model.UserName, model.Password);
return RedirectToAction("Index", "Student");
}
catch (MembershipCreateUserException e)
{
ModelState.AddModelError("", ErrorCodeToString(e.StatusCode));
}
}
return View(student);
}
Corresponding Views -
@model TestApp.Models.Student
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Create";
}
<script type="text/javascript" src="~/Scripts/MyCustom.js"></script>
<h2>Create</h2>
@using (Html.BeginForm()) {
@Html.ValidationSummary(true)
<fieldset>
<legend>Student</legend>
<div class="editor-label">
@Html.LabelFor(model => model.FirstName)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.FirstName)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.FirstName)
</div>
<div class="editor-label">
@Html.LabelFor(model => model.LastName)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.LastName)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.LastName)
</div>
<div class="editor-label">
@Html.LabelFor(model => model.DateOfBirth)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.DateOfBirth)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.DateOfBirth)
</div>
<div class="editor-label">
@Html.LabelFor(model => model.Gender)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Gender, new SelectList(Enum.GetValues(typeof(TestApp.Models.Gender))))
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Gender)
</div>
<div class="float-right-top">
@Html.Partial("_PartialRegisterStudent")
</div>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Create" />
</p>
</fieldset>
}
<div>
@Html.ActionLink("Back to List", "Index")
</div>
@section Scripts {
@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
}
Partial View "_PartialRegisterStudent.cshtml
@model TestApp.Models.RegisterModel
@using (Html.BeginForm()) {
@Html.AntiForgeryToken()
@Html.ValidationSummary()
<fieldset>
<ol>
<li>
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.UserName)
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.UserName)
</li>
<li>
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.Password)
@Html.PasswordFor(m => m.Password)
</li>
<li>
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.ConfirmPassword)
@Html.PasswordFor(m => m.ConfirmPassword)
</li>
</ol>
</fieldset>
}
@section Scripts {
@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
}
What will be the best way to create students with Teacher Role without the logged in user logging out of the application? I thought about using inheritance(Parent - UserProfile, Child-Student) and one to one relationship between student model and userprofile model but could not make out how to make it work. Code Samples will be very much appreciated!
P.S. Parden me if this post is a bit lengthy. Thank you.
