Can I skip an ActionFIlter in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

I have an action filter attribute on a base class all my controllers inherit from. I want it (the filter) to work on all methods EXCEPT one. Can it be done? How?

Answer 1

Not sure around the details, but could you set/override a member variable in your controller to indicate this? Then have your filter (or base controller) simply tell the filter not to run if that variable is present.

Answer 2

This is a little hackish, but you could test for the action in the filter's OnActionExecuting method, like so:

var controllerName = filterContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString();
var actionName = filterContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString();
if (controllerName == "Foo" && actionName == "Bar")
{
    return;
}
//do normal stuff