Getting Seam component (Identity) in an entity listener

[monkeyden]

Is it possible to get access to the Identity object from within an entity listener?  I'm trying to implement an audit trail for some entities but Identity is always null.  Seems like it would be pretty simple.  My entity bean is annotated with:

@EntityListeners({JPAValidateListener.class, AuditableListener.class})

And my AuditableListener

public class AuditableListener {
    @PrePersist
    public void prePersist(Auditable auditable) {
        String username = "ADMIN_SYSTEM";
        Identity identity = (Identity)Component.getInstance("org.jboss.seam.security.identity");
        if (identity.getUsername() != null) {
            username = identity.getUsername();
        }
        auditable.setLastUpdatedBy(username);
    }
}

Thanks

[clerum]

Have you tried (Identity)Component.getInstance("identity")

[monkeyden]

I did indeed. 

@PrePersist
    public void prePersist(Auditable auditable) {
        String username = "ADMIN_SYSTEM";
        Identity identity = (Identity)Component.getInstance("identity");
        if (identity.getUsername() != null) {
            username = identity.getUsername();
        }
        auditable.setLastUpdatedBy(username);
    }

Still null.

[william.drai]

We use this :

Contexts.getSessionContext().get("org.jboss.seam.security.identity")

[monkeyden]

Thanks for the reply William.  That also did not work for me.  We are also using the portlet bridge.  I'm wondering if there is something going on with that, though I have no specific evidence to suggest it.  It's just an odd piece of the puzzle.

[daxxy]

Did you ever figure this out?  I am in the same boat and just posted about it to the envers forum.