User role based show/hide few methods in ASMX/WCF service?

Amogh Natu

12y2.1k

Hi,
Say for example I have an ASMX service or a WCF service with say 50 methods. Now, based on the user who is trying to access the web service, I would like to hide few methods.
Like for example, say a Level 1 user gets access to only 10 methods from the 50 methods, level 2 user gets access to 30 methods and a level 3 user gets access to all the methods.
Is this possible?
Or do I need to create separate web services for each level user?
Thanks!

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Guest User12y ago
So you dont need separate service for every user. You can configure service and restrict in config file, e.g,

<location path="WebServices">
    <system.web>
        <authorization>
          <allow roles="Administrators, WebServices" />
          <deny users="*" />
        authorization>
    system.web>
location> the other way is to decorate service , e.g., [Authorize(Roles = "AuthorizedRole")]