I'm using Spring Boot, and I want to show inside my navbar the name and surname of the logged user.
To do that I have to call the principal inside every method of each controller and then I have to add the information to the model.
I think there is a better way to do that. I think about the session attribute. Is it correct?
So my question is: Is the session attribute the best choice? If yes How can I do it?
You can use something along these lines directly in your jsp:
<%@ taglib prefix="security" uri="http://www.springframework.org/security/tags" %>
<security:authorize access="isAuthenticated()">
authenticated as <security:authentication property="principal.username" />
</security:authorize>
Taken from baeldung