>From Marius:
>> 3) Presumably the document reference captures the full location of the
>> user's profile page. The DocumentReference API doesn't appear to have a
>> page name accessor, so presumably to extract the user name I need to pull
>> it out of userDoc.toString().
> 
> What information do you need precisely? The user alias (what the user uses
> to log in)? Or the user pretty name?
> 
> The user alias is the name of the user profile document.
> 
> bridge.getCurrentUserReference().getName()

I think this is what I need to do. I have a separate database which uses proxy 
authentication so that queries give different results based on the user (as a 
form of ACL). So I need the uid for the current user, which is mapped to the 
wiki 
alias.

Many thanks,

Bryn
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