How to get current user role with spring security plugin?

Question

I am using the spring-security-core plugin in my grails app. I need to know the current user\'s role in a controller action. How can I retrieve that?

Answer 1

You can also use getAuthenticatedUser() by itself. This method is automatically injected in every controller, and thus only available from controllers. You will have to use one of the other methods if you want to access the current logged in user from anywhere else.