Question

I have different types of Roles to take into account when authorizing a user.
For example: John must have Position Manager and be part of the Office Supplies Department to order a new computer.

Problem with Roles is Roles.GetRolesForUser(“John”) can only return a string array.

Should I go with a custom roleProvider and custom roleManager?
or should I develop a custom ProfileManager to add methods like GetUsersWithProfileProperties()?

Any suggestion is welcome!

Thibaut

EDIT: the above example is simplified I could have a much as 4 types of roles which are 4 different collections.

EDIT: I found a very similar question

Answer 1

why not create a “CompositeRoleProvider” with a Path-To-Level typew convention for accessing each subordinate role provider. You will still have to create multiple role providers, but your Composite or Top-Level Provider does all of the work for you.
I plan to do a similar thing with ProfileProvider