Get UserDetails object from Security Context in Spring MVC controller

Question

I\'m using Spring Security 3 and Spring MVC 3.05.

I would like to print username of currently logged in user,how can I fetch UserDetails in my Controller?

Answer 1

If you just want to print user name on the pages, maybe you'll like this solution. It's free from object castings and works without Spring Security too:

@RequestMapping(value = "/index.html", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView indexView(HttpServletRequest request) {

    ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("index");

    String userName = "not logged in"; // Any default user  name
    Principal principal = request.getUserPrincipal();
    if (principal != null) {
        userName = principal.getName();
    }

    mv.addObject("username", userName);

    // By adding a little code (same way) you can check if user has any
    // roles you need, for example:

    boolean fAdmin = request.isUserInRole("ROLE_ADMIN");
    mv.addObject("isAdmin", fAdmin);

    return mv;
}

Note "HttpServletRequest request" parameter added.

Works fine because Spring injects it's own objects (wrappers) for HttpServletRequest, Principal etc., so you can use standard java methods to retrieve user information.