Thomas,
Eric's answer is the way to go if you actually need a reference to an
instance of IPerson. When I read your question, I wasn't positive
whether you did or not.
If you only need to know "the user who is actually running the current
portlet" by username, you have more options.
First, there's the PortletRequest.getRemoteUser() method, which is meant
to provide you with "the login of the user making this request, if the
user has been authenticated, or null if the user has not been
authenticated" (javadoc). FYI, I think I remember that this method was
at one time not supported by uPortal but has been supported in more
recent releases.
Second, you can define a Person Attribute (in uPortal) that contains the
username, configure your portlet.xml (in your portlet app) to declare
that you're interested in this attribute, then access it using the
PortletRequest.getAttribute(PortletRequest.USER_INFO) API.
drew wills
Eric Dalquist wrote:
Yes you can, but only for portlets that are running in the uPortal
webapp. Part of the API used for this ended up having to change since
the RC3 release so I'll include instructions for both.
In the RC3 release and earlier:
-Use the PortletContainerUtils static service to get the portal's
HttpServletRequest from the PortletRequest
-Inject the IPersonManager (personManager bean name) into your class and
use it to get the IPerson for the portal's HttpServletRequest
In 3.0 code from today on:
-Inject the IPortalRequestUtils (portalRequestUtils bean name) into your
class and use it to get the portal's HttpServletRequest from the
PortletRequest
-Inject the IPersonManager (personManager bean name) into your class and
use it to get the IPerson for the portal's HttpServletRequest
The change that happened today was refactoring PortletContainerUtils
from a static service to a managed bean. The methods are exactly the
same. Here is the related changeset:
http://developer.ja-sig.org/source/changelog/jasigsvn/uPortal/trunk?cs=43524
-Eric
Thomas S. Pangborn wrote:
Is there a way to capture or determine what the current IPerson is for
a given portlet? i.e. Can I determine the user who is actually running
the current portlet?
Thomas
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