MenuControllerBase

Extends WebContextControllerBase to additionally decorate the current view model with the session-cached Business Online menu, the current menu item, the controller's declared category, and whether the current user is external.

Purpose

• Extends WebContextControllerBase to additionally decorate the current view model with the session-cached Business Online menu, the current menu item, the controller's declared category, and whether the current user is external.
• Every consuming application's controllers ultimately derive from this class to get menu rendering support.

Context

• Namespace: SAIF.Web.Mvc.Controllers
• Assembly/package: SAIF.Framework.Web.Mvc (source-shipping NuGet package)
• Kind: abstract class

Public members

Member	Signature	Purpose
ApplicationUser	protected IApplicationUserProfile ApplicationUser { get; }	Lazily resolved and request-memoized current user, used to determine IsExternalUser.
UserProfileService	public IUserProfileService UserProfileService { get; set; }	Property-injected service used to resolve ApplicationUser.
MenuCategory	protected abstract string MenuCategory { get; }	Category code the derived controller must supply; used to filter RenderTopMenu output.
MenuControllerBase(IMenuService, IWebContextService, IUserProfileService)	protected MenuControllerBase(IMenuService menuService, IWebContextService webContextService, IUserProfileService userProfileService)	Constructor-injects the services this base class and its parent need.
OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext)	protected override void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext filterContext)	Builds/reuses the cached menu and decorates the view model; see the "Build and attach the Business Online menu" operation.

Sources

• src/Web.Mvc/Controllers/MenuControllerBase.cs