Current User or session information

[Manuel Moons]

Hello,

Does anyone know how/if I can request the user that is doing the current request in a JAXRPC webservice. I want to return some user specific data from the database but I am not able to see how I can select the user that has done the current request. The user has been authenticated by using basic authentication so his information should be available somewhere!

[Rr Kumaran]

may be you can use JAX-RPC API's that help you read the HTTP Headers. This can be achieved using JAX-RPC Handlers.

[Ulf Dittmer]

In Axis that's possible with something like the following. Other WS engines probably have a similar mechanism. Just getting the HttpServletRequest is useful in its own right.

import org.apache.axis.MessageContext;
import org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPConstants;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 
MessageContext context = MessageContext.getCurrentContext();
HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest) context.getProperty(HTTPConstants.MC_HTTP_SERVLETREQUEST);
System.out.println("remote user = " + req.getRemoteUser());

[ September 20, 2005: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

[Manuel Moons]

Yes, I found something similar and it works great. Still hoping to find someting without having to use Axis specific classes. But it works and thats the most important thing of course.