How to access the current logged in user in the entity class?

[sumathra]

We would like to implicitly set the logged in user on certain persist / update operations, we already make use of the @PrePersist, @PreUpdate annotated methods to set few attributes. How do we do the same for the logged in user (currently we store the logged in user in the session context, not sure how to surface these values into the Entity model).

[idyoshin]

You can always define the component like this:

@Name("identityAuthenticator")
@Scope(ScopeType.APPLICATION)
@AutoCreate
public class IdentityAuthenticator {

     @Logger
     Log logger;

     @Observer(JpaIdentityStore.EVENT_USER_AUTHENTICATED)
     public void onAuthenticated(UserAccount u) {
          logger.info("setting logged_in_contragent to {1}", u.getContragent()
                    .getDescription());

          Contexts.getSessionContext().set(UserAccount.LOGGED_IN_USER,
                    u);
     }

}

and refer to the currently logged in user as Contexts.getSerssionContext().get(UserAccount.LOGGED_IN_USER)

Regards,

Ilya Dyoshin

[cash1981]

Why use an application scoped component? That means the component is kept alive in memory until the application shutsdown. So for each user that logs into the system you keep the component. Bad idea. Use session instead.

[sumathra]

Thanks Ilya

[sumathra]

Thanks Shervin