ASP.NET MVC / AX - Custom Membership Provider

Question

I am new to ASP.NET MVC Forms Authentication and have just started to create my own Custom Membership Provider. My ValidateUser and ChangePassword methods work but now I want to use the GetUser method to return the current user's data throughout my site. My AX method returns an AxaptaRecord which contains details of the user, like their phone number, company name etc.. How would I use this with the GetUser method?

Answer 1

You just need to create a new instance of MembershipUser object and populate properties from the AxaptaRecord object, here is some pseudocode:

    MembershipUser user = new MembershipUser("AX",
    (string)axRecord.get_Field("name"),
    axRecord.get_Field("recid"),
    email, //get this from SysUserInfo table
    string.Empty,
    string.Empty,
    (bool)axRecord.get_Field("enable"),
    !(bool)axRecord.get_Field("enable"),
    (DateTime)Convert.ChangeType(axRecord.get_Field("createdDateTime"), typeof(DateTime)),
    DateTime.MinValue,
    DateTime.MinValue,
    DateTime.MinValue,
    DateTime.MinValue);

Then you return user from your GetUser method. See the GetUser method description here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f1kyba5e.aspx

Answer 2

Controller:

var userDetails = System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser(username);

Then, there are many different ways for you to pass the data to View. Each way has its advantage and disadvantage. For details, please click here.

Model strongly-typed view can let you easily handle validation and generate data but not very good in display data if you have more than one table.