Factory method to get credentials?

[allanjun]

Hi there,

Does anyone know if there is a factory method in seam that can be used to get the credentials?

I know credentials can be injected with @In, but as we're only use seam in web layer, for services we just use pure ejb, no seam annotations. Therefore, we're looking for a easy way to access credential info such as the current login user name in services.

Thx.

[allanjun]

I found that I can use the following, anyone has further suggestions?

Identity.instance().getCredentials().getUsername();

[mroeoesli]

An other way is if you write your own factory:

@Factory(value = LOGGED_IN_USERNAME, scope = ScopeType.SESSION, autoCreate = true)
   public String getLoggedInUsername() {
      String username="";
      Identity identity= Identity.instance();
      if (identity.isLoggedIn() == true) {
         username = identity.getPrincipal().getName();
      } else {
         username = "none";
      }
      return username;
   }

or you can save the username in the session context (after login)

 @Observer(Identity.EVENT_LOGIN_SUCCESSFUL)
   public void loginSuccessfull() {
      Contexts.getSessionContext().set("CURRENT_USER", Identity.instance().getCredentials().getUsername());
}

and you can read it with

String username=Contexts.getSessionContext().get("CURRENT_USER");

[allanjun]

Thanks Marco, that's helpful.