Re: [xwiki-devs] using getLocalUser() - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

7 Nov 2007

Would be better to send mail on mailing list and not directly to me :)

Anyway in $xwiki you have all theses methods :

getUserName(user)
getUserName(user, link)
getUserName(user, format)
getUserName(user, format, link)

it seam that in getUserName(user) "link" is true by default so it
return you the name with a correct link to access it, if you don't
want the link I suppose $xwiki.getUserName($context.getUser(), false)
is correct.

When you search for api methods the better way is to print the class
and then go to javadoc to see the methods in the class. For example
for $context you can do $context.class that print you the exact JAVA
class and then you go to
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/DevGuide/API/xwiki%2Dcore%2D1.1.1%2…
and click on Context class link to see all methods $context contains.

2007/11/7, harikrishnan_v(a)amritatech.com &lt;harikrishnan_v(a)amritatech.com&gt;om>:
...
  Sorry for disturbing you again, Thomas. I am getting
the pretty-name using the way
 you told me.
 But it does not return the name as a plain string. It is a hyperlink to a page of
 that name (name of the user). Is there any method to get rid of that link ? Can
 something like typecasting be done here ?

 Thanks,
 Hari

 Thomas Mortagne wrote:

 If you want a prettier (FirstName LastName) user name you can use
 $xwiki.getLocalUserName($context.getUser()).

 2007/11/7, Thomas Mortagne &lt;thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com&gt;om>:
  Hi,

 You can get user name with $context.getLocalUser() or users full name
 with $context.getUser(). Full name means generally containing "XWiki."
 be fore user name, it's the full name of the document containing the
 user.

 2007/11/7, V. Harikrishnan Nair &lt;harikrishnan_v(a)amritatech.com&gt;om>:

 Hi...

 I tried use $xwiki.getUser to get the current user's name but I got a  value
  like this
'com.xpn.xwiki.api.User@13095c7'.
 So, I looked into the API doc and used getLocalUser() but it does not  work.
  This is the syntax that I used -

 #set($user = $xwiki.getLocalUser())
 $user

 What is wrong here ? It had given me an output for getUser().

 Harikrishnan

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