11 Replies Latest reply on Feb 28, 2007 6:37 PM by tonylmai

    How to use Seam Identity?

      I like Seam Identity. It simplifies my login session verification process significantly.

      What I would like to do next is to outject a LoginSession with account ID, etc... once the user has login. How do I go about overriding/suplementing the Identity.login method? (I am assuming there is an Identity.login method)

      Thanks

        • 1. Re: How to use Seam Identity?
          gavin.king

           

          @Name("org.jboss.seam.core.identity")
          public class MyIdentity extends RuleBasedIdentity {//or Identity, if no drools
           public String login() {
           String outcome = super.login();
           //do whatever you like
           }
          }





          • 2. Re: How to use Seam Identity?

            Hi Gavin,

            I am using Seam 1.1.6, not 1.2 and I received the following error when I copied the Authenticator example code (http://docs.jboss.com/seam/1.2.0.GA/reference/en/html/security.html#d0e6073)

            ---- Server log -------
            Caused by: org.jboss.seam.RequiredException: In attribute requires value for component: authenticator.entityManager
            ---------------------

            Note that in the example code, entityManager is injected as:
            @In EntityManager entityManager;

            whereas in the booking example, LoginAction has it declared as:
            @PersistenceContext private EntityManager em;

            Neither works for me when I started using Authenticator. Can you help?

            Do I need to upgrade to Seam 1.2?

            Thanks

            • 3. Re: How to use Seam Identity?
              gavin.king

              If you want to use @PersistenceContext, you need to make your Authenticator a session bean. Otherwise, you need to config a seam-managed PC.

              • 4. Re: How to use Seam Identity?

                I am using Seam-managed PC. But it's throwing me the above error. Here is a snippet of stacktrace:

                18:07:03,015 INFO [Lifecycle] starting up: org.jboss.seam.security.identity
                18:07:03,562 INFO [Pages] reading pages.xml
                18:07:03,625 ERROR [SeamLoginModule] Error invoking login method
                javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: org.jboss.seam.RequiredException: In attribute requires value for component: authenticator.entityManager
                 at com.sun.faces.application.MethodBindingMethodExpressionAdapter.invoke(MethodBindingMethodExpressionAdapter.java:91)
                ....
                Caused by: org.jboss.seam.RequiredException: In attribute requires value for component: authenticator.entityManager
                 at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstanceToInject(Component.java:1920)
                .....
                


                I followed the example and coded the Authenticator as followed:

                package com.judots.webclient.session;
                
                import * (skipped)
                
                @Name("authenticator")
                public class Authenticator {
                 @In
                 EntityManager entityManager;
                
                 public boolean authenticate() {
                 String usrName = Identity.instance().getUsername();
                 System.out.println("Verify login for " + usrName);
                
                 User dbUsr = null;
                 try {
                 dbUsr = (User) entityManager
                 .createQuery(
                 "from login_user where loginId = :username and password = :password")
                 .setParameter("username", Identity.instance().getUsername())
                 .setParameter("password", Identity.instance().getPassword())
                 .getSingleResult();
                
                 assert (dbUsr != null) : "No result from db. Should have thrown NoResultException";
                
                 Seam.invalidateSession();
                 // String err = Messages.getString(ELNames.APP_BUNDLE_ELNAME,
                 // "login.invalidIdPwd.msg", new Object[] {});
                 // FacesMessages.instance().add(err);
                 return false;
                 }
                 } catch (NoResultException ex) {
                 System.out.println("User " + usrName + " not found.");
                
                 Seam.invalidateSession();
                 // String err = Messages.getString(ELNames.APP_BUNDLE_ELNAME,
                 // "login.invalidIdPwd.msg", new Object[] {});
                 // FacesMessages.instance().add(err);
                 return false;
                 }
                
                 return true;
                 }
                }
                


                I am not sure if I understand what it means by 'In attribute requires value for component'. Can you help?

                Thanks

                • 5. Re: How to use Seam Identity?
                  gavin.king

                  Probably you need auto-create=true in components.xml, or @In(create=true) in the Java.

                  • 6. Re: How to use Seam Identity?

                    With the (created=true) flag, I now got this:

                    21:54:46,578 INFO [Lifecycle] starting up: org.jboss.seam.security.identity
                    21:54:46,734 INFO [Pages] reading pages.xml
                    21:54:46,843 INFO [STDOUT] Verify login for tony
                    21:54:46,843 ERROR [SeamLoginModule] Error invoking login method
                    javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: login_user is not mapped [select u from login_user u where u.loginId=:username and u.password=:password]
                    


                    Note that this same select statement worked with LoginAction which was a session bean.

                    I will try to upgrade to 1.2 tomorrow and see if that would make a difference.

                    Thanks

                    • 7. Re: How to use Seam Identity?

                      1.2 did not solve the problem. I am still running into the error:

                      23:02:21,453 INFO [Lifecycle] starting up: org.jboss.seam.security.identity
                      23:02:22,625 INFO [Pages] reading pages.xml
                      23:02:23,546 INFO [STDOUT] Verify login for tony
                      23:02:23,718 ERROR [SeamLoginModule] Error invoking login method
                      javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: login_user is not mapped [select u from login_user u where u.username=:username and u.password=:password]
                      


                      Gavin, can you help?

                      Thanks

                      • 8. Re: How to use Seam Identity?
                        gavin.king

                        I highly doubt that you have a class called "login_user", so I'm sure this query never worked in any version of Hibernate.

                        • 9. Re: How to use Seam Identity?

                          I got it now. If entityManager was injected as @In then it would use Hibernate query. In earlier code I injected with @PersistenceContext and that was why I was able to use SQL select statement against the database table.

                          Back to overriding the RuleBasedIdentity, the login method allows me to return a viewId to redirect user to a specific page. Yet the logout does not. How would I go about redirecting user to a different page after they have logged out?

                          Thanks.

                          • 10. Re: How to use Seam Identity?
                            shane.bryzak

                             

                            "tonylmai" wrote:

                            Back to overriding the RuleBasedIdentity, the login method allows me to return a viewId to redirect user to a specific page. Yet the logout does not. How would I go about redirecting user to a different page after they have logged out?


                            Here's an example of redirect on logout in pages.xml:

                             <page view-id="*">
                             <navigation from-action="#{identity.logout}">
                             <redirect view-id="/home.xhtml"/>
                             </navigation>
                             </page>
                            


                            • 11. Re: How to use Seam Identity?

                              Got it. Thanks.