Hello,

I have a plugin project where I have defined my controller class say TestController and have defined an action say TestAction having ChildActionOnly attribute. I have also decorated this action with my custom attribute say CustomAuthorizationAttribute. When this action method is called, MVC is supposed to call the OnAuthorization or AuthorizeCore method which is not happening. I am not sure what is wrong in the code as this is a standard approach to define the custom attribute for action method or there is any other procedure.

Below is the class written for custom authorization attribute

    public class CustomAuthorizationAttribute: AuthorizeAttribute
    {
        public CustomAuthorizationAttribute() { }

        public CustomAuthorizationAttribute(string actionName)
        {
            //Some logic here
        }

        protected override bool AuthorizeCore(System.Web.HttpContextBase httpContext)
        {
            bool someValue = true;

            //Set someValue variable as per custom authorization logic here

            return someValue;
        }
    }

I have also tried OnAuthorization method but it is also net getting called.

Below is the action method that uses CustomAuthorizationAttribute

public class TestController : SurfaceController
    {
        [ChildActionOnly]
        [CustomAuthorization("Index")]
        public PartialViewResult TestAction()
        {
            return PartialView();
        }
    }

However, the code for custom authorization attribute gets called if I mark the action with [HttpPost] attribute only. It seems this is not working for the actions marked with [ChildActionOnly] attribute only.

I am using Umbraco 5(Jupiter) version which is completely based on MVC architecture and my plugin DLLs are located in umbraco project under below path

App_Plugins\Packages\Plugin_Name\lib

If anyone has come across such scenario and got workaround, please provide help.

Any kind of pointers will be very helpful.

Thanks.