Get claims from a WebAPI Controller – JWT Token,

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You should be able to retrieve a claims like this within your controller

var identity = HttpContext.User.Identity as ClaimsIdentity;
if (identity != null)
{
    IEnumerable<Claim> claims = identity.Claims; 
    // or
    identity.FindFirst("ClaimName").Value;

}

If you wanted, you could write extension methods for the IPrincipal interface and retrieve claims using the code above, then retrieve them using (for example)

HttpContext.User.Identity.MethodName();

For completeness of the answer. To Decode the JWT token let’s write a method to validate the token and extract the information.

public static ClaimsPrincipal ValidateToken(string jwtToken)
    {
        IdentityModelEventSource.ShowPII = true;

        SecurityToken validatedToken;
        TokenValidationParameters validationParameters = new TokenValidationParameters();

        validationParameters.ValidateLifetime = true;

        validationParameters.ValidAudience = _audience.ToLower();
        validationParameters.ValidIssuer = _issuer.ToLower();
        validationParameters.IssuerSigningKey = new Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.SymmetricSecurityKey(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(_appSettings.Secret));

        ClaimsPrincipal principal = new JwtSecurityTokenHandler().ValidateToken(jwtToken, validationParameters, out validatedToken);


        return principal;
    }

Now we can validate and extract the Claims by using:

ValidateToken(tokenString)?.FindFirst("ClaimName")?.Value

You should note that the ValidateToken method will return null value if the validation fails.

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