Hema, I'm not positive that you can "get" a list of the User's roles in a "direct" way without rewriting the user-management implementation ... but you can certainly check to see if a user is in a "specific role" by using the PortletRequest object's "isUserInRole" and "getRemoteUser" methods ...
HTH, - Frank > -----Original Message----- > From: Hema Menon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 08:48 PM > To: Jetspeed Users List > Subject: Re: User Attributes with Struts Portlet bridge on Fusion > > > Thanks Frank. Redeployment seems to take care of it. I was thinking of > getting the login name, not the user first name. Now, how can I get > the logged in user's loginname and role? > > Thanks, > Hema > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:36:37 -0600, Frank Villarreal > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Make sure you re-deploy your portlet application, b/c J2 "caches" the > > portlet.xml in the database and will not pick up changes to > your portlet.xml > > file if you edit it directly in "${webapps}/yourapp/WEB-INF/portlet.xml" > > directly ... > > > > - Frank > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Hema Menon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 04:28 PM > > > To: Jetspeed-User > > > Subject: User Attributes with Struts Portlet bridge on Fusion > > > > > > > > > I am trying to get the user attributes (user name) from a servlet > > > filter in my struts application. I have the <user-attribute> defined > > > in portlet.xml. However when I try to get the user attributes from the > > > PortletRequest, I am getting null. Is there something I am missing? > > > The code gets the PortletRequest first and then tries to get the > > > USER_INFO attribute from the PortletRequest. > > > > > > PortletRequest portletReq = > > > (PortletRequest)request.getAttribute("javax.portlet.request"); > > > Map userInfo = (Map) > portletReq.getAttribute(PortletRequest.USER_INFO); > > > This returns a null for userInfo. > > > > > > Can someone suggest a better way to getting the User information from > > > the struts portlet? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Hema > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > Hema Menon > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Hema Menon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
