❔ Best place to store a flag globally on ASP.NET Core
Hello everyone.
What I'm trying to achieve is given a list of users that each have access to 1...N companies, store a flag app wide (for that current user scope) to determine which is the selected company that they will be performing actions for.
So far I tried using claims and it kinda works but I know they are not supposed to be used for that.
So anyways, if anyone can think of an alternative it would be great. Not looking for a full blown solution, just another mind to tackle the problem.
Here is a diagram to illustrate the problem better.
Thanks in advance
Blazor Server
.NET 7
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another idea i found while googling is to have a singleton service that carries that information
everything can be loaded on app startup and there is no need to modify stuff while running, we can just restart for this scenarios
what do you mean my "not looking for a full blown solution", i mean it depends what you will do with this flag
to me the obvious would be a relation between user and company, but i don't know if you are using a db
or for example if this 'flag' has to be part of migrations, if it has to be available in various redundant services, if it has to be part of data backups, if it can be read/written, and so on
there is no db, everything runs on http requests between the app and a service layer
with support of a key vault for secrets
Use a cascading aparam
Or like you said a singleton with a constructor param to configure the singleton
that might work
so do you use this like a sort of permission? like RBAC?
this already comes filtered from the db, it's more like a filter to separate company operations, there will be roles configured from azure aswell
this works perfectly, thanks
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