Accessing roles programatically

[ericl]

Hi,

I've written by own JAAS database login module which I'm using to create a set of special roles for my users.

I'd like to get access to these roles (after authentication) in code, so I can authorize users to see certain subsets of data. My question is, how do I go about getting a handle (in my bean code) to the roles that I created / set in my LoginModule?

Thanks,
Eric Lindauer

[philc]

I'm looking for the exact same thing.
Did you find any information?

[ericl]

Hi,

You can get to the Principal object from the session context. You can then get to the role information in a number of ways, the simplest / hackiest being to save the role data in a public static Map in your LoginModule, then look it up in your bean.

Hope this helps,
Eric