27 Nov
2014
27 Nov
'14
11:32 p.m.
I wrote:
> What's the right way to get the current user
from the execution
> context within a Java component?
Thomas Mortagne replied:
For what you need the simplest in a component is
usually to use
org.xwiki.bridge.DocumentAccessBridge component (from
xwiki-platform-bridge module) until a proper user manager api is
introduced.
OK, so I should not use ExecutionContext at all? It looks the the approach you're
suggesting is:
1) Inject a DocumentAccessBridge instead of an Execution, e.g.:
@Inject
private DocumentAccessBridge bridge;
2) Get a reference to the current user
(According to
http://maven.xwiki.org/site/docs/xwiki-javadoc-5.0.x/org/xwiki/bridge/Docum…
which might be out of date but I can't find a more recent API doc)
DocumentReference userDoc = bridge.getCurrentUserReference();
3) Presumably the document reference captures the full location of the user's profile
page. The DocumentReference API doesn't appear to have a page name accessor, so
presumably to extract the user name I need to pull it out of userDoc.toString().
Is this right? Conceptually I find this less intuitive than using a context object, so
it's a pity if that's been deprecated.
Thanks,
Bryn