In this Spring Boot application there is a web service, which returns some data for a logged-in user:
@RequestMapping("/resource")
public Map<String, Object> home() {
Map<String, Object> model = new HashMap<String, Object>();
model.put("id", UUID.randomUUID().toString());
model.put("content", "Hello World");
return model;
}
Imagine, the return value of the method depends on what user is currently logged in.
How can I find out, which user is logged in in that method?
As per request:
Spring Boot which uses Spring Security internally provides a SecurityContextHolder class which allows the lookup of the currently authenticated user via:
Authentication auth = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
The authentication instance now provides the following methods:
getPrincipal()
getCredentials()
getAuthorities()
getDetails()