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+// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+// Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+using global::Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
+using global::Microsoft.Identity.Web;
+using System.Globalization;
+using System.Net;
+using System.Security.Claims;
+
+namespace Microsoft.Identity.Web.Resource;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Extension class providing the extension methods for <see cref="HttpContent"/> that
+/// can be used in web APIs to validate scopes and roles in controller actions.
+/// </summary>
+public static class RolesOrScopesRequiredHttpContextExtensions
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// When applied to an <see cref="HttpContext"/>, verifies that the user authenticated in the
+    /// web API has any of the accepted scopes or roles.
+    /// If there is no authenticated user, the response is a 401 (Unauthenticated).
+    /// If the authenticated user does not have any of these <paramref name="acceptedScopes"/> or <paramref name="acceptedRoles"/>, the
+    /// method updates the HTTP response providing a status code 403 (Forbidden)
+    /// and writes to the response body a message telling which scopes or roles are expected in the token.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="context">HttpContext (from the controller).</param>
+    /// <param name="acceptedScopes">Scopes accepted by this web API.</param>
+    /// <param name="acceptedRoles">Roles accepted by this web API.</param>
+
+    public static void ValidateAppRolesOrScopes(this HttpContext context, string[] acceptedScopes, string[] acceptedRoles)
+    {
+        if (acceptedScopes?.Any() != true && acceptedRoles?.Any() != true)
+        {
+            throw new ArgumentException($"{nameof(acceptedScopes)} and {nameof(acceptedRoles)} are null or empty");
+        }
+        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(context);
+
+        IEnumerable<Claim> userClaims;
+        ClaimsPrincipal user;
+
+        // Need to lock due to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/performance/performance-best-practices?#do-not-access-httpcontext-from-multiple-threads
+        lock (context)
+        {
+            user = context.User;
+            userClaims = user.Claims;
+        }
+
+        if (user == null || userClaims == null || !userClaims.Any())
+        {
+            lock (context)
+            {
+                context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized;
+            }
+            //throw new UnauthorizedAccessException(IDWebErrorMessage.UnauthenticatedUser); 
+            throw new UnauthorizedAccessException("IDW10204: The user is unauthenticated. The HttpContext does not contain any claims. ");
+        }
+
+        var hasScopeOrRole = false;
+        if (acceptedScopes?.Any() == true)
+        {
+            var scpClaim = user.FindFirst(ClaimConstants.Scp)?.Value?.Split(' ');
+            var scopeClaim = user.FindFirst(ClaimConstants.Scope)?.Value?.Split(' ');
+
+            hasScopeOrRole = scpClaim?.Any(acceptedScopes.Contains) == true || scopeClaim?.Any(acceptedScopes.Contains) == true;
+        }
+        if (acceptedRoles?.Any() == true)
+        {
+            var rolesClaim = userClaims.Where(claims => claims.Type == ClaimConstants.Roles || claims.Type == ClaimConstants.Role)
+                    .SelectMany(roles => roles.Value.Split(' '));
+            hasScopeOrRole = rolesClaim?.Any(acceptedRoles.Contains) == true;
+        }
+        if (hasScopeOrRole)
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        var message = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
+                        $"The 'scope' or 'scp' claim does not contain scopes '{0}' nor " +
+                        $"the 'roles' or 'role' claim does not contain roles '{1}'",
+                        new string[] { string.Join(",", acceptedScopes), string.Join(",", acceptedRoles) });
+
+        lock (context)
+        {
+            context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.Forbidden;
+            context.Response.WriteAsync(message);
+            context.Response.CompleteAsync();
+        }
+        throw new UnauthorizedAccessException(message);
+    }
+}