In our developing e-commerce solution we are using AspNet Identity 2.2.1 and it is required that any guest (anonymous) users should complete checkout without prior registration to the website. In order to fullfill this requirement have written an ActionFilter named UserMigrationAttribute which obtains SessionTrackId (string GUID) from cookie -which we set from a HttpModule for every request if SessionTrackId is not found along with request cookies- and creates and actual IdentityUser in database with the username something like SessionTrackId@mydomain.com.
We have decorated our BaseController class with this UserMigration attribute in order to utilize its functions throughout the site.
Everything up to this point works as expected with single downside issue, which is when the page is being loaded for the first time for any user, if we try to make an Jquery Ajax Call to a Method which have [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
attribute, the call fails with the 'The provided anti-forgery token was meant for a different claims-based user than the current user.
' error, even though we are sending __RequestVerificationToken
parameter with every ajax call.
But if user opens another page by clicking link and/or reloads/refreshes current page, all the subsequent ajax calls complete successfully.
In our understanding UserMigrationAttribute creates user on OnActionExecuting method, but after we signIn user in the process @Html.AntiForgeryToken() is not being updated with the right values.
You may find the UserMigrationAttribute code below;
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class)]
public class UserMigrationAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
public ApplicationSignInManager SignInManager(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
return filterContext.HttpContext.GetOwinContext().Get<ApplicationSignInManager>();
}
public UserManager UserManager(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
return filterContext.HttpContext.GetOwinContext().GetUserManager<UserManager>();
}
public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
CreateMigrateCurrentUser(filterContext);
base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
}
private static readonly object LockThis = new object();
private void CreateMigrateCurrentUser(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
lock (LockThis)
{
var signInManager = SignInManager(filterContext);
var userManager = UserManager(filterContext);
var sessionTrackId = GetSessionTrackId(filterContext);
if (!filterContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(sessionTrackId))
{
var username = string.Format("{0}@mydomain.com", sessionTrackId);
var user = userManager.FindByName(username);
if (user == null)
{
user = new User() {UserName = username, Email = username};
var result = userManager.Create(user);
userManager.AddToRole(user.Id, StringResources.AnonymousVisitorsGroup);
}
signInManager.SignIn(user, true, true);
}
}
else
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(sessionTrackId))
{
var username = string.Format("{0}@mydomain.com", sessionTrackId);
var user = userManager.FindByName(username);
if (user != null)
{
if (!HttpContext.Current.User.IsInRole(StringResources.AnonymousVisitorsGroup))
{
var targetUserId = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.GetUserId<int>();
var service = new Service();
service.Users.MigrateUser(user.Id, targetUserId);
}
}
}
}
}
}
private string GetSessionTrackId(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
var retVal = string.Empty;
if (filterContext.HttpContext.Request.Cookies["stid"] != null)
{
retVal = filterContext.HttpContext.Request.Cookies["stid"].Value;
}
return retVal;
}
}
Any help or suggestions are highly appreciated.
Thank you,