Does the asp.net RoleManager really cache the roles for a user in a cookie if so configured?

Question

In my web.config I have the Role Manager configured as follows:

<roleManager enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="true" cookieName=".ASPROLES" 
cookieTimeout="30" cookiePath="/" cookieRequireSSL="false" 
cookieSlidingExpiration="true" cookieProtection="All">

however in our custom RoleProvider it would seems that the GetRolesForUser method is always being called, rather than as I would have expected, the RoleManager serving up the roles from its cookie.

We're using something like to get the roles for a user:

string[] myroles = Role.GetRolesForUser("myuser");

Is there something that I'm missing in the configuration, or in the use of the RoleManager

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

It might work better if you were to change the value in your cacheRolesInCookie to true.

Answer 2

I am having the same issue when I call the method Roles.IsUserInRole(role); passes the call to my custom role provider. The method that is called is IsUserInRole(string email, string roleName). From there it round trips the database.

Answer 3

I am having a similar problem. Inspecting different scenarios in Sql Profiler reveals the following:

Roles.IsUserInRole("SomeRole"); ==> This uses the cookie cache and does not hit the database. User.IsInRole("SomeRole"); ==> This also uses the cookie cache and does not hit the database. Roles.GetRolesForUser(); ==> This hits the database on the first call, but any subsequent calls to Roles.GetRolesForUser() does not hit the database.

Does anyone knows how I can get a list of roles for the currently logged in user from the cookie cache (and not have to hit the database)?