[C#] Best Practices of Get Claim from Identity

If you are using ASP.NET Identity, whatever using ASP.NET Core Identy or ASP.NET Identity, usually you will add some claims into the identity and use it later, but I saw lot people using unsafe way to get claim value from identity, it may cause uncatch error if the claim type not exists, let's see the code.

//set some claims first
var claims = new List<Claim>
{
     new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name,"test name"),
     new Claim("Token","token123"),
     new Claim("Number","3")
     //new Claim("dummy","dummy string")
};
var ci = new ClaimsIdentity(claims);

//most seen way, throw error if not exists
var name = ci.Claims.First(x => x.Type == ClaimTypes.Name).Value;
var token = ci.Claims.First(x => x.Type == "Token").Value;  
//using FirstOrDefault() only, throw error if not exists
//var dunno = ci.Claims.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Type == "dunno").Value;

Using this way is easy, but if the claim not exists, if will cause error, whatever you are using First() or FirstOrDefault(). If want to using FirstOrDefault() to get claim value, you can using this fixed way.

            //fixed FirstOrDefault way: return null if not exists
            var dunno = ci.Claims.Where(x => x.Type == "dunno").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
            

but you can use HasClaim method to check claim exist first, and give a proper value if it not exists.

            //safe way: using HasClaim to check
            var dummy = ci.HasClaim(x => x.Type == "dummy")
                ? ci.Claims.First(x => x.Type == "dummy").Value
                : null;
            

or you can choose this short way by using FindFirst method.

            //short way: using FindFirst
            var dummyShort = ci.FindFirst("dummy")?.Value;
            //short way for int
            int.TryParse(ci.FindFirst("Number")?.Value, out var number);
            

I think use ClaimsIdentity.FindFirst Method is the best practices for get claim value.
You can test those here in here