identity.getUserName() deprecated

[asookazian]

using Seam 2.1.1.GA.  The following method has been deprecated:

Identity.instance().getUsername();

why and what to replace with?  No info on this in API doc.  thx.

[shane.bryzak]

Use Credentials.getUsername().

http://docs.jboss.org/seam/2.2.0.GA/reference/en-US/html/security.html#d0e8733

[asookazian]

There is no instance() method in the API for Credentials.  Must we use @In?

For example, how would I refactor the following w/o using @In?

String username = Identity.instance() != null ? Identity.instance().getUsername() : null;

[shane.bryzak]

Using @In is the recommended way, however if you don't want to inject it I guess you can get a reference with Component.getInstance().  FYI, there will be no <component>.instance() convenience methods in Seam 3.

[shane.bryzak]

Actually, you can use Identity.instance().getCredentials() also.

[asookazian]

Shane Bryzak wrote on Feb 24, 2010 02:09:


Using @In is the recommended way, however if you don't want to inject it I guess you can get a reference with Component.getInstance().  FYI, there will be no <component>.instance() convenience methods in Seam 3.

Thanks for your replies.  I will use the last posted code snippet.  This is a plain SFSB, not a Seam component.  We are trying to keep some of our components as generic as possible (using @EJB as well to inject other EJBs) in case we need to migrate to Spring stack or other frmwks in the future.  So that means I can't use @In right now unless I add the @Name("foo") to the SFSB or configure in the components.xml, the latter being a better solution in this scenario.

Also, trying to keep dynamic injection (and outjection, disinjection) to a minimum for performance reasons.  @EJB is injected just once, the same as it is with @Inject.