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 are using spring security then you can get the current logged in user by

Authentication auth = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
     String name = auth.getName(); //get logged in username