Les,

Thanks, I'll look into doing this. Are there any examples of using an
AuthenticationListener that I could reference?

Tauren


On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Les Hazlewood <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Tauren,
>
> You could implement an AuthenticationListener - I typically like to do
> this for these kinds of operations.
>
> Since Shiro does not count remember me as a true authentication, the
> AuthenticationListener will not be triggered for remember me events.
> To do that you would also need to implement your own
> RememberMeManager.  Typically subclassing the default one and updating
> the timestamp in the getRememberedPrincipals method would work:
>
> @Override
> public PrincipalCollection getRememberedPrincipals(Map subjectContext) {
>    PrincipalCollection principals =
> super.getRememberedPrincipals(subjectContext);
>    if ( principals != null ) {
>        int userId = principals.getPrimaryPrincipal();
>        //update the last login timestamp for user with this id here
>    }
> }
>
> The above method is called only if the current Subject/session does
> not yet have an identity associated with it.
>
> The AuthenticationListener + the above overridden method should do it!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Les
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Tauren Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What would be the best way to update properties of a member on successful
> > authentication? Basically, there is a Member.lastLogin property that I
> want
> > updated with the current date every time a member comes back to a site
> and
> > logs in.  However, this should also support rememberme authentications. I
> > don't necessarily want to update the lastLogin property on every single
> > interaction the user has on the site, just once for each session.
> > Is there some technique in Shiro to do this, a callback of some sort, or
> > some other method? Or should I be doing this in my application?
> > Also, I can't seem to view much of the documentation. All the links on
> the
> > following page require an Apache login. Is it supposed to be this way?
> > http://incubator.apache.org/shiro/core.html
> > Thanks!
> > Tauren
> >
> >
>

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