[Yanel-dev] Login Issue?

[Cedric Staub]

Hi there

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:34:56PM +0100, Balz Schreier wrote:
> I noticed the following:
> 
> 1) You login a user like this:
> 
>    DefaultWebAuthenticatorImpl.authenticate(username, password, getRealm(),
> request.getSession())
> 
> 2) Right after this line, you want to retrieve the user via environment:
> 
>    environment.getIdentity().getUsername()
> 
> doesn't work! NULL is returned for the user.
> 
> Instead you have to use this line to retrieve the user object:
> 
>    realm.getIdentityManager().getUserManager().getUser(userID)
> 
> So I assume that the identity object gets not updated correctly in the
> environment?
> Can you verify that?

Hmm... This may be implementation-specific. Which class are you using as
IdentityManager? But anyhow this is clearly a bug if you ask me. I shall 
investigate the matter when I have some more time. 

Cheers
Cedric