Getting the current users name?

[dunc]

I'm using acegi along side webflow and I wish to retrieve the current users name and bind it to a field in my object. I managed to do this when using MVC with the following.

String user = request.getSession().getAttribute("ACEGI_SECURITY_LAST_USERNAME").toString();

I'm not sure if this was the best way of doing it but it worked ok. How do I go about doing this in webflow?

[Rossen Stoyanchev]

You can write the same code in a FormAction deriving class.

[dunc]

I am trying to do this using <bean-action>. I need to pass it an object that is/contains the Session or at least the attributes within the session. Does such an object exist within the flow and if so what is it called?

[jonnio]

You can make your own bean that takes httprequest as a parameter to a method. You can then do a bean action to call that method and do what you like with it.