Looks like you did not read http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingComponents#HTheXWikicontext fully and are mixing ExecutionContext and XWikiContext, ExecutionContext does not have any typed methods, it's just a map basically and most of the time you don't really use it directly but use an API that manipulate the context.
For what you need the simplest in a component is usually to use org.xwiki.bridge.DocumentAccessBridge component (from xwiki-platform-bridge module) until a proper user manager api is introduced. On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Bryn Jeffries <bryn.jeffr...@sydney.edu.au> wrote: > What's the right way to get the current user from the execution context > within a Java component? > > Taking the example from the guide > (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingComponents) I > thought it would be something like the following, which won't compile for me > due to the getLocalUser symbol not being found. > > > import org.xwiki.context.Execution; > import org.xwiki.context.ExecutionContext; > ... > @Inject > private Execution execution; > > @Override > public String sayHello() > { > ExecutionContext context = execution.getContext(); > > String user = context.getLocalUser(); > return "Hello " + user; > > } > > I note that in > http://nexus.xwiki.org/nexus/service/local/repositories/releases/archive/org/xwiki/platform/xwiki-platform-oldcore/6.3/xwiki-platform-oldcore-6.3-javadoc.jar/!/com/xpn/xwiki/XWikiContext.html#getLocalUser%28%29 > the getLocalUser() method is deprecated in lieu of getUserReference() but > I'd really rather deal with a String if at all possible. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
