Confusion over LOCAL AUTHORITY claims and External Provider claims

Question

I am creating a simple WebApi which allows users to connect with Facebook. When I get the accessToken back from facebook, I am calling RegisterExternal to create an Asp.Net Identity record and store the Claims from the token. These claims also include the access token which I require to query the facebook graph later. All seems fine up to this point.

The issue I am having is reading the claims. I can see they are in my database I just cant figure out how to query this data. I have tried

var claimsIdentity = User.Identity as ClaimsIdentity;

But this returns me 2 claims for a) "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name" b) role

Both of these are of issuer LOCAL AUTHORITY (to be honest I am not sure when they are created as I am not explicitly adding these). So I believe their is either confusion on me saving the claims to the database agains the wrong type of issuer

await userManager.AddClaimAsync(user.Id, new Claim("urn:facebook:access_token", accessTokenClaim.Value, ClaimValueTypes.String, "LOCAL AUTHORITY"));

or my code for accessing the claims is incorrect.

Can anybody shed some light on this?

Answer 1

LOCAL_AUTHORITY is the default value for Issuer if it is not specified at creation of the Claim. For example: var claim = new Claim("LastName", "Timberlake","string", "http:/contoso.com/someissuername"); The last parameter in the above example is the issuer.