clsOnlineContext

clsOnlineContext is a clsContext specialization dedicated to the "Online" SAIF application: its constructor fixes ApplicationName to the literal "Online" and requires the caller to supply an already-established clsSecurityPrincipal, rather than relying on clsControllerBase.SecurityCheck to establish one. It also exposes a Shadows-declared savecontext wrapper around the inherited SaveContext, making that otherwise Protected Friend operation callable as a public method on this type.

Purpose

• Provides a ready-made context for the "Online" application that does not need ApplicationName set separately by the controller.
• Accepts a pre-established security principal directly through its constructor, for callers that already have one rather than going through the standard SecurityCheck pipeline.
• Publicly exposes context persistence (savecontext) so callers with a clsOnlineContext reference can trigger a save without going through a clsControllerBase.Navigate call.

Context

• Namespace: SAIF.Presentation.Web.MVC*
• Assembly/package: SAIF.Presentation.Web.MVC

This type inherits from clsContext, a local type in this same library (see clsContext); the members below include both its own new members and, per the self-containment rule, the complete inherited public surface it gains from clsContext.

Public members

Member	Signature	Purpose
New	Public Sub New(ByVal inSecPrinc As clsSecurityPrincipal)	Constructs the context with the given security principal and ApplicationName fixed to "Online"
savecontext	Public Shadows Sub savecontext(ByVal inSessionID As String)	Publicly callable wrapper that calls the inherited (Protected Friend) SaveContext(inSessionID); see Persist context rows
claimId (inherited)	Public Property claimId() As Decimal	Well-known context field carrying the current claim identifier
policyNum (inherited)	Public Property policyNum() As Integer	Well-known context field carrying the current policy number
SAIFClaimNum (inherited)	Public Property SAIFClaimNum() As String	Well-known context field carrying the SAIF-formatted claim number
ProviderLocationSeqNum (inherited)	Public Property ProviderLocationSeqNum() As Integer	Well-known context field carrying a provider location sequence number
SecurityPrincipal (inherited)	Public Property SecurityPrincipal() As clsSecurityPrincipal	The identity carried by this context; fixed at construction time by clsOnlineContext.New but still settable afterward through the inherited property
UserName (inherited)	Public ReadOnly Property UserName() As String	Legacy accessor for the current user's name, derived from SecurityPrincipal
UserID (inherited)	Public ReadOnly Property UserID() As String	Returns SecurityPrincipal.UserName.ToUpper(), or an empty string when no principal is set
GetContext (inherited)	Public Function GetContext(ByVal key As String) As String	Reads a generic named context value previously set with SetContext
SetContext (inherited)	Public Sub SetContext(ByVal key As String, ByVal value As String)	Writes a generic named context value into the in-memory context bag

Behavioral notes

• Because the constructor sets ApplicationName to the fixed literal "Online" (via MyBase.ApplicationName, bypassing the Friend setter restriction from within the base class itself), any code holding a clsOnlineContext never needs to set the application name separately.
• savecontext is declared Shadows rather than Overrides — it does not override a virtual member, it introduces a new public member with the same base name but different casing/accessibility that hides the inherited Protected Friend SaveContext from consumers using the derived type's static type.

Constraints and usage notes

• Because the base class's ApplicationName setter is Friend, external code cannot reassign the fixed "Online" application name on an existing clsOnlineContext instance from outside this assembly.

Note: Statements marked with * were inferred from code structure, naming conventions, or contextual evidence where direct confirmation was not available in source artifacts.

Sources

• SAIF.Presentation.Web.MVC/clsOnlineContext.vb
• SAIF.Presentation.Web.MVC/clsContext.vb