Hello

I am part of a team developing a thin framework to provide some basic JavaEE features for you applications (web & ejb).

Part of this framework includes a custom Wildfly login module, which createa a custom implementation of the java.security.Principal class.

This principal is made available in the container for applications to access once authenticated.

Inside the application code, I would like to be able to do:

@Inject

java.security.Principal principal;

which would inject the principal set by our custom login module.

Now this all works very well, except that the class injected by the CDI container is off course a proxy.

Despite all Google suggestions, I have found no way to access the actual class instance (the custom Principal implementation) behind the bean proxy.

I need this to access a custom getter method.

Is there anyway to either access the underlying instance or invoke a method, not part of the exposed interface - portable or even Weld specific?

I have looked at:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-10?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel&showAll=true&_sscc=t

There is a comment from Mark Struberg on how to do this using the BeanManager. I have tried this using:

Context ctx = beanManager.getContext(RequestScoped.class);

Set beans = beanManager.getBeans(Principal.class, new AnnotationLiteral<Default>(){});

Bean bean = beanManager.resolve(beans);

Object instance =  ctx.get(bean);

However, ctx.get(bean) returns null.

The custom login module works - I can do:

Principal principalFromHttpServletRequest = httpServletRequest.getUserPrincipal();

which returns the actual custom principal implementation.

I would however like to have the principal injetced without having to call getUserPrincipal / getCallerPrincipal.

Any help is very welcome.

Thanks

Michael