How can I display the current logged in User with Spring Boot Thymeleaf?

Question

I am trying to display the details of the current user however I keep getting errors. I tried accessing the authenticated user from the template but that did not work as I w

Answer 1

The problem is here:

return new 
org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User(user.getEmailAddress(),
        user.getPassword(),
        mapRolesToAuthorities(user.getRoles()));

You lose the reference to your User entity. Change it to:

return user;

For this to work, you need to update your User entity to implement UserDetails interface:

public class User implements UserDetails {
    // some new methods to implement
}

Then, your Thymleaf code should work. Another way of getting the firstName would be: