Cannot access Session value declared in one controller in another controller in MVC 5

Asked Apr 06 '18 at 09:22

Active Apr 06 '18 at 09:42

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So in my MVC App I require the user to login, handled by the AccountController,

And after successful login I save some extra properties to the session like so

Member member = dbContextRead.Members.Include(m => m.Location).SingleOrDefault(e => e.AspNetUserId == user.Id);
System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["member"] = member;
System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["location"] = member.Location;

But when I try to access the session in another controller and fetch the values it returns null.

var member = (System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["member"] as Member) ?? dbContext.Members.Single(m => m.AspNetUserId == user.Id);

Also a good thing to add, if I check the Session Id in the 2 different locations, they return a different session id and a different instance.

Why is that? Am I missing something, should this be setup somewhere?

edited Apr 06 '18 at 09:42

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asked Apr 06 '18 at 09:22

Andrei dela Cruz

@mjwills yes, I put a breakpoint on 2 different locations and the declaration of the session value executes first. – Andrei dela Cruz Apr 06 '18 at 09:27
What is the value of `member.GetType()` when the setting occurs? – mjwills Apr 06 '18 at 09:28
@mjwills There are only 2 places - where I used them. Login and the Access controller. – Andrei dela Cruz Apr 06 '18 at 09:29
Is Session State disabled? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/884852/how-can-i-disable-session-state-in-asp-net-mvc – mjwills Apr 06 '18 at 09:30
Is `Member` class serializable? – Chetan Apr 06 '18 at 09:31
@ChetanRanpariya hmm, no. Is it necessary? – Andrei dela Cruz Apr 06 '18 at 09:33
@mjwills Yeah, i've tried storing an integer and can't access it as well. It might have something to do with those 2 controllers having a different instance of Session – Andrei dela Cruz Apr 06 '18 at 09:34
Are they both in the same browser? Logged in as the same user? Is Session State disabled? – mjwills Apr 06 '18 at 09:37
If you need to store class objects into session they need to be serializable. – Chetan Apr 06 '18 at 09:39
@mjwills Yes, same browser, logged in as the same user, and no session state is not disabled – Andrei dela Cruz Apr 06 '18 at 09:39
@mjwills – Andrei dela Cruz Apr 06 '18 at 09:49
are those MVC controllers or WebAPI controllers? – Andrei Dragotoniu Apr 06 '18 at 10:02
@AndreiDragotoniu MVC – Andrei dela Cruz Apr 06 '18 at 10:21

Cannot access Session value declared in one controller in another controller in MVC 5

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