Re: Get JahiaDBUser on Portlets

Ricardo Ferreira a écrit :
> Hi KT,
>
> I would like to thank you for your quick reply.
>
> What i really need to do is develop a web interface (portlet JSR168) 
> to access an authentication and authorization (using roles - user can 
> access portlet if he has roles, and can access enterprise content if 
> he has rights to do that) webservice, that is running on jboss. So i 
> need to authenticate on webservice, and i would like to use the same 
> login/password. I can "force" user to insert login/password inside 
> portlet, but if you could see anyway to do this, i would thank you...
> So... on jahia, can you see a way to authenticate on jboss with same 
> jahia login/pass?
>
> But Khaled... why i get a "org.jahia.services.usermanager.JahiaDBUser 
> " when i log request.getUserPrincipal().getClass()? I shoudn't get 
> Principal class?
Hi,

java.security.Principal    p = request.getUserPrincipal();

Principal is an interface but the class of p is 
"org.jahia.services.usermanager.JahiaDBUser".

getClass() method  returns the runtime class of an object.

For more information, please refers to:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html

KT.



>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ricardo Ferreira
>
>
>
>
> On 3/9/07, * Khaled TLILI* <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     There are 2 types of portlets supported by Jahia: jahiaWebapps
>     (only for
>     Jahia 4 and 5)and portletJSR168 (only jahia 5 and JSR168 portal). It's
>     better and recommended to develop a portlet JSR168.
>
>     You find the specification here:
>     http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168
>
>     A portlet JSR168 can't access to user's password. It's not the job of
>     the portlet to deal with sign on.
>
>     User's login is retrieve like that:
>     java.util.Principal p = request.getUserPrincipal();
>     or
>     String login = request.getRemoteUser().
>
>     It's NOT possible to access  Jahia objects or classes. So JahiaDBUser
>     has no meaning to a portlet.
>
>
>     KT.
>
>
>     Ricardo Ferreira a écrit :
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     >
>     > i'm a noobie with jahia (i'm using 5.0.1) and I'm trying to devep a
>     > portlet. Inside my portlet i need to get the username and
>     password for
>     > user that is accessing to portlet.
>     > If i log " request.getUserPrincipal().getClass()" i get an
>     JahiaDBuser:
>     >
>     > "class: org.jahia.services.usermanager.JahiaDBUser"
>     >
>     > But if i do:
>     >
>     > JahiaDBUser juser = (JahiaDBUser) request.getUserPrincipal();
>     >
>     > i get an exception:
>     >
>     > "- JetspeedContainerServlet: Error rendering portlet
>     > "MyPortletSystem::MyortletSystem": java.lang.ClassCastException:
>     > org.jahia.services.usermanager.JahiaDBUser
>     > java.lang.ClassCastException :
>     org.jahia.services.usermanager.JahiaDBUser"
>     >
>     > Can you help me?
>     >
>     > Regards on advanced,
>     >
>     > Ricardo Ferreira
>     >
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