Accessing HttpContext in a class library - ASP.NET MVC

Question

I am populating an instance of a class that represents the session variable and exists in a class library. I need to populate one property that requires me to get access to the Request object. I understand that I can use the System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request to get the request object?

Is this a good practice. Something tells me that I should be doing this in the controller (or the base controller) that has the System.Web namespace.

Answer 1

Its not a bad practice - the object is available - if you design dictates to access it there - then by all means do it. One option is to pass in an instance of the request to the class's constructor if it makes you feel cleaner : )