Adding User Claims via API keys in WebApi 2
Adding a Custom Authentication Filter
Update
Please for the love of all that is holy, don't do this. There are many great solutions out there now. I recommend Azure AD (cheap), Auth0(freeish), or Identity Server(open sou). This was a pretty terrible implementation that was meant as a stopgap.
Scenario
I have an API that I wish to lock down via an . . .
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WebApi JSON Serialization
Circular References FTL
The Challenge
I was building a standard ASP.NET EntityFramework / WebApi / Swagger project. Attempting something a bit new, I decided my controller would return a CreatedAtRoute HttpActionResult. The code goes something a little like this:
[HttpPut]
public IHttpActionResult AddMyObject([FromBody] MyObject newObject)
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