Respository and Identity in asp.Net MVC 5

Question

The User property (type IPrincipal ) of a controller comes from the base Controller class. I would like to use a repository to keep as much of my code as possible out of my controller, and also aid testing. Since my repository doesn't inherit from Controller , how can I get the User information in my repository methods without passing it in?

Answer 1

I ended up using this

    private IPrincipal CurrentUser
    {
        get
        {
            return HttpContext.Current.User;
        }
    }

and all is well.