how to get the group info of an authenticated user

2001-01-10 Thread Jie Yao

Is there a way to get the group info of an anthenticated user? If yes,
how can this be associated with the role info in a HttpServletRequest?
Thanks.
Jie Yao
Software Engineer
Emageon Inc.
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Re: how to get the group info of an authenticated user

2001-01-10 Thread Craig R. McClanahan

Jie Yao wrote:

 Is there a way to get the group info of an anthenticated user? If yes,
 how can this be associated with the role info in a HttpServletRequest?

The servlet API does not have any concept of a "group" -- most people treat
roles as groups, however, because you can assign a role to more than one user
(and a user can be assigned more than one role).

You can ask if the current user is a member of a specific group like this:

if (request.isUserInRole("manager")) {
... this person is a manager ...
}


 Thanks.
 Jie Yao

Craig McClanahan

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