Question on Claims in SharePoint 2010

Question

Hi All,

 

I have a claim based Application with SQL Server as Provider. I have created a web part and deployed on Claim based web application and now I am able to retrieve the Claim sets with below code

 

            IClaimsPrincipal claimsPrincipal =Page.user  as IClaimsPrincipal;

 

            IClaimsIdentity claimsIdentity = (IClaimsIdentity)claimsPrincipal.Identity;

 

 

 

 

This is good, now I have a Custom WCF Service Hosted in _Vti_bin and Avaiable to Claim Based Application as Virtual Directory.

 

 

 

So My question is : Can I Access claims same way as I am doing in Web Part as this WCF service is running under same context?

 

Am I missing something or this approach is possible?

 

Thanks in Advance!!

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Pathik

Answer 1

Hi all,

 

This is resolved now. You can not access Claims in Web Service. I have solved by getting the Claims in Web part which consumes Web service. Once I get the Claims I also create SPUser with Claims Set. Then Claims set is converted to SAML Token and passed to Web Service. Then Name Identifier is extracted from SAML and SPUSer is populated.

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Pathik Rawal Blog: http://pathikhrawal.wordpress.com

Answer 2

Please read http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericwhite/archive/2010/05/13/determining-caller-identity-within-a-wcf-web-service.aspx for getting the caller identity within a claim enabled wcf web service.