Thanks Matt for the quick response.
Yeah, I just want to get the current logged-in username. So, I take it
getRequest().getRemoteUser() returns the username for the principal?
Tony
mraible wrote:
>
> If all you need to retrieve is the username,
> getRequest().getRemoteUser() should be sufficient.
>
> Matt
>
> On 2/21/07, tonyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I need to get the current user and after searching forums and discussions
>> and
>> examples about how to do this, I found that variations on the following
>> code
>> seem to be considered a good way to get the current user:
>>
>> SecurityContext ctx = null;
>> Authentication auth = null;
>>
>> if( ctx == null )
>> {
>> ctx = SecurityContextHolder.getContext();
>> if ( auth == null && ctx.getAuthentication() != null )
>> auth = ctx.getAuthentication();
>> }
>>
>> if ( auth != null )
>> {
>> String currentUser;
>> if ( auth.getPrincipal() instanceof UserDetails )
>> {
>> currentUser = ((UserDetails)
>> auth.getPrincipal()).getUsername();
>> }
>> else
>> {
>> currentUser = String.valueOf( auth.getPrincipal() );
>> }
>>
>> return currentUser;
>> }
>>
>> But then, I did some more investigation and stumbled upon:
>>
>> getRequest().getUserPrincipal().getName();
>>
>> getRequest() returns an HttpServletRequest that is retrieved
>> through a
>> FacesContext
>> getFacesContext().getExternalContext().getRequest();
>>
>> So, which is the better way to get the current user? Personally, I
>> like
>> using the request because it's a lot less code
>> and the BasePage class generated by AppFuse already has the
>> getRequest() method implemented, but the majority
>> of examples and forums used the first option through the
>> SecurityContext and Authentication object.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
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