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

I figured out how to fix my problem.

I created this method in a controller:

  @Autowired
UserRepository userR;
@GetMapping
public String currentUser(@ModelAttribute("user") @Valid UserRegistrationDto userDto, BindingResult result, Model model) {

    Authentication loggedInUser = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
    String email = loggedInUser.getName(); 

     User user = userR.findByEmailAddress(email);
    String firstname = user.getFirstName();
     model.addAttribute("firstName", firstname);
    model.addAttribute("emailAddress", email);

    return "userProfile1"; //this is the name of my template
}

and then I added this line of code in my html template:

Email: th:text="${emailAddress}"