Hi Mahesh,

Yes that is true. I might have not expressed my requirement clearly. The
thing is, we need both username and the *name of the user *for the author
tag in a commit. It's the latter that we do not have with us.

Thanks,


On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Mahesh Chinthaka <mahe...@wso2.com> wrote:

> Hi Kavith,
> What I meant was after user provide username and password, if login is
> successfull ; you can keep username somewhere in your side.
> Then whenever you need username, you can get it from there. No need to
> invoke a AF api.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Kavith Lokuhewage <kav...@wso2.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mahesh,
>>
>> I am not clear what you meant by "without calling AF". We only take
>> username and password from users. Then we invoke this api -
>> "/appmgt/site/blocks/user/login/ajax/login.jag" -  with username and
>> password to get the authenticated cookie. This API only returns true or
>> false to indicate login status. We store the cookie returned form it and
>> use it for other API calls during the session. Other-than that, we don't
>> have any details about the logged in user.
>>
>> However, seems there is an alternative. "getUsersOfApplication" returns
>> all the users of a particular app along with their usernames + First Names
>> and Last names. Since we already have the username of logged in user, we
>> can iterate through the users returned by above API to get the First Name
>> and Last Name of current user.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Mahesh Chinthaka <mahe...@wso2.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Kavith,
>>>
>>> No, AF dont have a jaggery API to get the user.
>>>
>>> Hope this is for logged in user. Cant you get the logged in user from
>>> your side with out calling AF.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Kavith Lokuhewage <kav...@wso2.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We need to get the name of the user in order to use it as the author
>>>> name for commits (This is achieve [1])
>>>>
>>>> Is there a jaggery API available for this? Or should we use use an
>>>> admin service?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/TOOLS-2728
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>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
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> *Mahesh Chinthaka Vidanagama* | Software Engineer
> WSO2, Inc | lean. enterprise. middleware.
> #20, Palm Grove, Colombo 03, Sri Lanka
> Mobile: +94 71 63 63 083 | Work: +94 112 145 345
> Email: mahe...@wso2.com | Web: www.wso2.com
>



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