How to get Current User name in java backed webscript

[yasosaran]

Hello Everyone,

How to get current user name in share. I have a custom java backed dashlet, and I would like get the current user name in the custom dashlet and do some query based on that and put those results in the model.

I am not sure how to get the current user name. I tried using AuthenticationUtil.getRunAsUser() and it is returning null. I also tried authenticationService .getCurrentUsername() and add the reference in my bean descriptor,, and its throwing No such bean defined exception.

Could someone please help me?

Thanks

[jayjayecl]

the "authenticationService.getCurrentUserName();" is the right choice (I use it myself)

Maybe you could give us your bean descriptor (web-scripts-application-context.xml) and your Java class, so that we find the problem ?

[sanket]

Hi Guise.
I am using the same thing.
getAuthenticationService().getCurrentUserName()

But it always returns "admin".

It should return the name of the logged in user, but it's not happening.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

[waynejiang]

If you need get the current user in java backed webscript frm Share. Code as below,

import org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContext;
import org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.ThreadLocalRequestContext;
import org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractWebScript;
import org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.WebScriptRequest;
import org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.WebScriptResponse;
import org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.connector.User;

public class DemoAction extends AbstractWebScript {
    @Override
    public void execute(WebScriptRequest request, WebScriptResponse response) {
        RequestContext context = ThreadLocalRequestContext.getRequestContext();
        User user = context.getUser();
    }
}‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

[umamaheswari]

Hello Waynejiang,

The above mentioned gives a NullPointerException. Could you pls tell if the User has to be set somewhere else.kindly help

Thanks

[kevinchen]

String user = AuthenticationUtil.getFullyAuthenticatedUser();