Do you have a stack trace for this error? It seems like a bug to me.
On Tue 13 Mar 2012 05:49:21 PM CDT, dan wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I am upgrading to Shiro 1.2 and have the following problem. In the code, I
> determine the role of an arbitrary user by calling this method and then
> doing a hasRole(...):
>
> public Subject getSubjectByLogin(final String login) {
> PrincipalCollection principals = new
> SimplePrincipalCollection(login,
> REALM_NAME);
> return new
> Subject.Builder().principals(principals).buildSubject();
> }
>
> It worked fine with Shiro 1.1. With Shiro 1.2, searching through the forum,
> I saw a similar issue and changed the method to use WebSubject:
>
> public Subject getSubjectByLogin(final String login) {
> PrincipalCollection principals = new
> SimplePrincipalCollection(login,
> REALM_NAME);
> final FacesContext faces = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
>
> HttpServletResponse resp =
> (HttpServletResponse)faces.getExternalContext().getResponse();
> HttpServletRequest reqs =
> (HttpServletRequest)faces.getExternalContext().getRequest();
>
> WebSubject.Builder b = new WebSubject.Builder(reqs, resp);
> return b.principals(principals).buildSubject();
> }
>
> This worked better but it has the side effect of changing the Subject object
> of the logged in user to the one was being checked. The effect is that any
> subsequent click takes me to a accessDenied page because the changed subject
> has lesser privledges.
>
> So... can you comment on how to retrieve the role of an arbitrary user?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> PS. I am still wanting to implement Guice support but had to back off on
> that until this upgrade issue was resolved! ;|
>
>
>
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