Re: [xwiki-users] Getting user name with a Java Component

On Nov 28, 2014 12:33 AM, "Bryn Jeffries" wrote: > > 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you're suggesting is: http://maven.xwiki.org/site/docs/xwiki-javadoc-5.0.x/org/xwiki/bridge/Docum… which might be out of date but I can't find a more recent API doc) user's profile page.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(). What information do you need precisely? The user alias (what the user uses to log in)? Or the user pretty name? The user alias is the name of the user profile document. bridge.getCurrentUserReference().getName() For the pretty name you need to get the value of the first_name and last_name properties from the user profile document for which you have the reference: the user reference. bridge.getProperty... Hope this helps, Marius context object, so it's a pity if that's been deprecated. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users