Inject service into Action Filter

Using these articles as reference:

ASP.NET Core Action Filters

Action filters, service filters and type filters in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6

Using the filter as a ServiceFilter

Because the filter will be used as a ServiceType, it needs to be registered with the framework IoC. If the action filters were used directly, this would not be required.

Startup.cs

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) {
    services.AddMvc();

    services.AddScoped<ISessionService, SessionService>();
    services.AddScoped<EnsureUserLoggedIn>();

    ...
}

Custom filters are added to the MVC controller method and the controller class using the ServiceFilter attribute like so:

[ServiceFilter(typeof(EnsureUserLoggedIn))]
[Route("api/issues")]
public class IssueController : Controller {
    // GET: api/issues
    [HttpGet]
    [ServiceFilter(typeof(EnsureUserLoggedIn))]
    public IEnumerable<string> Get(){...}
}

There were other examples of

• Using the filter as a global filter

• Using the filter with base controllers

• Using the filter with an order

Take a look, give them a try and see if that resolves your issue.

Hope this helps.

Global filters

You need to implement IFilterFactory:

public class AuthorizationFilterFactory : IFilterFactory
{
    public bool IsReusable => false;

    public IFilterMetadata CreateInstance(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
    {
        // manually find and inject necessary dependencies.
        var context = (IMyContext)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IMyContext));
        return new AuthorizationFilter(context);
    }
}

In Startup class instead of registering an actual filter you register your filter factory:

services.AddMvc(options =>
{
    options.Filters.Add(new AuthorizationFilterFactory());
});