Frank, Thanks. RenderRequest's getRemoteUser returned me null, however the getUserPrincipal() returns the value correctly. I thought both should return the same value. Anyway, thanks for you help.
Later, Hema On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:08:52 -0600, Frank Villarreal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > > > > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hema Menon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
