Request and Validate Sitefinity SWT - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 28-Apr-2014 00:00

Hi SF developers,

I'm trying to integrate Sitefinity's claims based authentication with our web api. The requirement is quite simple:

User logs into Sitefinity with a user name and password, when the widget needs to call the backend WebApi, it retrieves a token from Sitefinity and presents it to the api. The Api validates the token and if valid, perform the action, otherwise reject it.

Does this sound like a simple and reasonable scenario with Sitefinity?

I've configured sitefinity 6.3 to use Claims Based Authentication and added a replying party for the web api host.

What I need some help with is sample code on how to request and validate the token.

Thanks in advance.

Walter

Posted by Community Admin on 08-May-2014 00:00

Hello Walter,

Actually once a user has been susscessfully logged you could perform the following:

var user = ClaimsManager.GetCurrentIdentity();

var isAuthenticated = user.IsAuthenticated;

var isBackend = user.IsBackendUser;

var isUnrestricted = user.IsUnrestricted;

Hope this helps

Regards,
Vassil

Posted by Community Admin on 08-May-2014 00:00

@Vassil

..."IsUnrestricted" is that a combination of backend and admin or something?....

Posted by Community Admin on 09-May-2014 00:00

Hi,

A role is unrestricted when it is granted ultimate permissions.

Regards,
Vassil Vassilev

Posted by Community Admin on 09-May-2014 00:00

Well there's no Ultimate Permission button :) ...so is it just Administrator or...?

Do you know what I mean?

Posted by Community Admin on 09-May-2014 00:00

Hi Steve,

Correct, IsUnrestricted returns a bool value if the user belongs to an Administrators role.

Regards,
Vassil Vassilev
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