ViewData of Actionfilter is not available in Base Controller property

Question

I have a basecontroller like this

  [Action]
  public abstract class ApplicationController : Controller
  {
     public bool HasRight { get { return ((bool)ViewData["Actions2"]); } }        
  .........
  }

Action Attribute

public class ActionAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
   public override void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext filterContext)
   {
      filterContext.Controller.ViewData["Actions2"]=true;
      .........
   }

} 

When i call some view from certain controller I get null exception at

public bool HasRight { get { return ((bool)ViewData["Actions2"]); } } as ViewData is null

Answer 1

I think you're looking for OnActionExecuting which is executed before your Controller action and not OnActionExecuted.

This should work:

protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext) {
    filterContext.Controller.ViewData["Actions2"]) = true;
}

Answer 2

You need to get ViewData from the FilterContext Like this:

    public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
    {
        filterContext.Controller.ViewData["Actions2"] = true;
        base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
    }

Update :

After your update i realized that you're trying to get access to ViewData["Actions2"] before setting the value to it.

So you should use OnActionExecuting instead of OnActionExecuted to ensure that the value has been set to the ViewData