authenticationComponent.setSystemUserAsCurrentUser()

[turgayz]

Hi,
I was trying to create a node, but not from the web app - from within a scheduled job. So there is no "current user" where I am trying to create the node.

I had the trouble of authentication, and used the following first:

AuthenticationService authenticationService = serviceRegistry.getAuthenticationService();
authenticationService.authenticate("admin", "admin".toCharArray());
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But obviously this is not a good idea as the admin password should have been changed.
I noticed that (in BaseAlfrescoSpringTest class for example), the following is used:

AuthenticationComponent authenticationComponent = (AuthenticationComponent) this.applicationContext
                .getBean("authenticationComponent");
authenticationComponent.setSystemUserAsCurrentUser();
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And I decided to use this in my class. But is a good idea to use this other than within a TestCase?

[andy]

Hi

Internally you can set a user as authenticated.
This should certainly be used with caution.

You can use the authentication component to set the current authentication to be a given user name.

So if you want your sceduled job to run as the user "bobbins"
use authenticationComponent.setCurrentUser("bobbins") will do this.

Regards

Andy

[turgayz]

Thank you, Andy,
Are there any side effects when using this?

As I said, I want to run a scheduled job as a given user name. When I use this method, only the job's thread will be authenticated with the given user name, is that correct?