C#•3w ago

✅ Is anybody knows how to explain what exactly HttpContext is and its attributes?

In this code:

[Authorize]
[HttpPost("RegisterAsBusiness")]
public async Task<ActionResult> RegisterAsBusiness(BusinessViewModel businessData)
{
    //HttpContext represents the current HTTP request and response (of the current cookie -> it's an object provided by ASP.NET Core).
    var id = HttpContext.User.FindFirst(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier)?.Value;

    var phoneNumber = businessData.Phone;
    var ContactEmail = businessData.ContactEmail;
    //TODO: var AcceptBusinessTerms = businessData.AcceptBusinessTerms;

    if(phoneNumber != null && ContactEmail != null)
    {
        var user = 

    }
    return Ok();
}

[Authorize]
[HttpPost("RegisterAsBusiness")]
public async Task<ActionResult> RegisterAsBusiness(BusinessViewModel businessData)
{
    //HttpContext represents the current HTTP request and response (of the current cookie -> it's an object provided by ASP.NET Core).
    var id = HttpContext.User.FindFirst(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier)?.Value;

    var phoneNumber = businessData.Phone;
    var ContactEmail = businessData.ContactEmail;
    //TODO: var AcceptBusinessTerms = businessData.AcceptBusinessTerms;

    if(phoneNumber != null && ContactEmail != null)
    {
        var user = 

    }
    return Ok();
}

Especially here -> var id = HttpContext.User.FindFirst(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier)?.Value; What exactly is HttpContext? Is it detecting an existing cookie in my enviroment? What User is? Thanks 🙂

4 Replies

Angius•3w ago

HttpContext is kind of a grab bag of... stuff The request, the response, cookies, headers .User is the currently logged-in user's claims, that are stored in the cookies or in the JWT token

YardenOP•3w ago

Thank you ❤️

sibber•3w ago

in general, "context" means just that, "additional data/stuff related to the thing"

JakenVeina•3w ago

it's everything that the framework designers thought might be useful to make available to middlewares for processing HTTP requests and building HTTP responses mainly, it consists of the HTTP Request, Response, and Session State pretty much everything on there logically falls into one of those buckets

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✅ Is anybody knows how to explain what exactly HttpContext is and its attributes?

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