How do I get at my UserDetails object from my controllers?

[wiggles]

Once Acegi has grabbed my custom UserDetails object from the database and validated it, how can I get at it again from later in my processing, i.e. a SimpleFormController. I've been looking around for the good part of the night and found that I can get to it from ContextHolder... but how do I get to ContextHolder? Thanks!

[liva]

I just using the following code to get my UserDetails Object again:

SecureContext sc = (SecureContext) (ContextHolder.getContext());
(SecurityUser) sc.getAuthentication().getPrincipal();

[wiggles]

Yea, but where are you getting ContextHolder from?

[gfaerman]

try
import net.sf.acegisecurity.context.*;

And may the Acegi "magic" be with you! :wink:

Cheers,
Gustavo

[wiggles]

Oh, it's a static method. hehe, I wasn't expecting it to be that simple. Sorry.

EDIT: And as far as I'm concerned, a static method that returns a thread-specific object IS majic.