Create coreservice client using credentials of a logged user in tridion using UI

Question

We have an GUI extension tool which connects to .net api running in tridion server which uses coreservice to get required informations.

We have set a default username and password to connect coreservice client in .net api.

So now when user login from tridion user-interface how can we connect to coreservice client using users credentials instead of default username and password in .net api?

(note: we have used Alchemy in other projects in which we don’t require to set default username and password to connect coreservice)

Answer 1

Core Service client, by default uses currently logged on user unless you want to use a different user, like it is explained here in the SDL docs:

https://docs.sdl.com/783502/101707/sdl-tridion-sites-9-1/connecting-to-the-core-service-from--net-as-a-different-user

You may probably have to impersonate it, for example:

if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name))
{      clientCoreServiceSession.Impersonate(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name);
}