Accessing Extended UserDetails in JSP

[pander]

Hi,

I have a class called AuthenticatedUser which is created when overiding the jdbcDaoImpl method loadUserByUsername, and which contains some additional information I require about the user such as email address, and first & last name etc. The class AuthenticatedUser is returned by the method loadUserByUsername.

The is all working fine and in my Java src I can access the principal and call any methods of the class including my own, such as getFirstName(), without any problems.

My question is, how do I access this inside my JSP pages? Say for example I want to welcome my user on the logged in index page 'Welcome X' where X is the first name of the user, not username.

I am using SpringFramework 3 and Spring Security 2.05.

Paul.

[Grzegorz Grzybek]

Hi

You can access it with EL:

${pageContext.request.userPrincipal.principal.yourCustomProperty}

• userPrincipal is an org.springframework.security.core.Authentication object
• userPrincipal.principal is an org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User Details object

regards
Grzegorz Grzybek

[pander]

Hi Grzegorz,

Thanks for your reply.
I have managed to solve this using the following:

1. include the security taglib at the top of the JSP.
2. <sec:authentication property="principal.username"/>

Regards,
Paul.

[Grzegorz Grzybek]

That's the second method

[tostis]

Neither solution works for me. I'm using Spring Security 2.0.3, Icefaces 1.8.1 + Facelets. In backing beans SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthenticati on().getPrincipal() returns the correct information.

[pmularien]

Make sure you have servlet-api-provision enabled.

[tostis]

unfortunatly it does not work even with servlet-api-provision="true"

[pmularien]

Oh, I didn't see you are using facelets / JSF, so JSP EL may not work for you (nor is it really what you want). You'll probably want to use a backing bean to supply the data, then. The Spring Sec taglibs aren't JSF components.