Getting FirstName from identity, extend Identity?

[mrlueck]

I would like to display 'FirstName LastName' in the 'signed in as' inside the menu.xhtml.  Do I need to extend Identity to include FirstName and LastName as accessible fields, or is there another way I can go about getting at the whole user account entity from the identity framework?

[cash1981]

There are many ways to do this.
First of all you need to get the current logged in user. I am not sure how you have solved your solution, but if you have something like this, then you can just get the currentUser and in your User table you can create a

@Transient
     public String getName() {
          return this.firstname + " " + this.lastname;
     }

and then in your menu.xhtml you can just write

#{currentUser.getName()}

or if you only want firstname

#{currentUser.firstName}

Hope this helps

[jeanluc]

Or you can have a session-scoped component that keeps your User entity. To load it, define a

@AutoCreate
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
@Startup
...

private User user;

@Observer("org.jboss.seam.security.postAuthenticate")
public void loadUser(){
   String username = ((Identity)Component.getInstance(Identity.class)).getPrincipal().getName();
   //load the User entity here and store it in the user variable
}

Also make sure you clear the user when listening to org.jboss.seam.security.preAuthenticate and org.jboss.seam.security.loggedOut.