Thanks for posting your results. But I am thinking now that this may lead to a portability issue. Push to a container other than Tomcat and 'org.apache.catalina.User' will not be available on the classpath.
Also, during development you are forced to include catalina as a dependency to compile. Or are you somehow using reflection? Oliver -----Original Message----- From: users-return-242261-OLIVER.TANGLIN=saic....@tomcat.apache.org on behalf of Tobias Gierke Sent: Wed 6/12/2013 2:12 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: Possible to expose a Tomcat Realm instance through JNDI ? Hi Oliver, > I think I now understand your issue. I was faced with a similar problem and > could not figure out how to get the roles of an authenticated user through > the servlet API. > > It seems to only allow the question 'request.isUserInRole(role)'. But does > not seem to provide a way to get a list of roles that the user is in. > > I used a kludge whereby I defined the valid roles in a context init parameter > (bad duplication of effort). Then used 'request.isUserInRole(role)'. I did > not think to cast the 'request.getUserPrincipal()' return value. > > Please post if your methodology works. > > Oliver > I ended up using WebserviceContext#getUserPrincipal() and downcasting it to org.apache.catalina.User ; should probably also work with the plain HttpServletRequest since WebserviceContext is just a wrapper. Cheers, Tobias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
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