I wrote: > > What's the right way to get the current user from the execution > > context within a Java component?
Thomas Mortagne replied: > For what you need the simplest in a component is usually to use > org.xwiki.bridge.DocumentAccessBridge component (from > xwiki-platform-bridge module) until a proper user manager api is > introduced. OK, so I should not use ExecutionContext at all? It looks the the approach you're suggesting is: 1) Inject a DocumentAccessBridge instead of an Execution, e.g.: @Inject private DocumentAccessBridge bridge; 2) Get a reference to the current user (According to http://maven.xwiki.org/site/docs/xwiki-javadoc-5.0.x/org/xwiki/bridge/DocumentAccessBridge.html which might be out of date but I can't find a more recent API doc) DocumentReference userDoc = bridge.getCurrentUserReference(); 3) Presumably the document reference captures the full location of the user's profile page. The DocumentReference API doesn't appear to have a page name accessor, so presumably to extract the user name I need to pull it out of userDoc.toString(). Is this right? Conceptually I find this less intuitive than using a context object, so it's a pity if that's been deprecated. Thanks, Bryn _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
