JavaScript equivalent to Membership.GetUser()

Question

I am using ASP.NET Membership Provider JavaScript library to authenticate users using the following:

Sys.Services.AuthenticationService.login(...)

And to check for their login status I use:

Sys.Services.AuthenticationService.get_isLoggedIn()

But is there a way to get the User object through JavaScript? I can easily get it on server-side using:

MembershipUser u = Membership.GetUser();

But I am looking for a way to do the above in JavaScript (if possible).

Thanks.

Answer 1

You have to serialize the data to a Javascript variable.

(Warning: Typed on-the-fly. Didn't feel like logging into work to run this through the editor.)

// Copy the important user fields over.

var UserInfo = new {
  field1 = "field1"
};

JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
<script>
  var userInfo = <%= serializer.Serialize(UserInfo ) %>
</script>