get current user from the action

[ale_carraro]

I'm creating a custom action by extending ActionExecuterAbstractBase and need to get the user that fired the action. Can I get it by the Action/NodeRef passed to executeImpl()? Or by IoC? Or it is not possible?

thanks for reading

[kevinr]

As the action is configured in Spring config, you can use IoC to access services including PersonService and AuthenticationService - then you can do this kind of thing:

NodeRef person = personService.getPerson(authenticationService.getCurrentUserName());
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That shows getting the current username and also getting the current Person node that represents the current user.

See org.alfresco.repo.action.executer.MailActionExecuter in the Alfresco SDK for an example.

Hope this helps,

Kevin

[ale_carraro]

thank you very much! I was not able to find the getCurrentPerson, I thought it was in the person service… but it is not