[cdi-dev] Types of Principal object

[arjan tijms]

P.s. slightly offtopic for CDI spec itself, but:

A small workaround is to @Inject SecurityContext context; and then:

MyPrincipal principal = (MyPrincipal ) context.getCallerPrincipal();

Thinking of it, maybe I can make the getCallerPrincipal() a generic method,
so one can do:

MyPrincipal principal = context.getCallerPrincipal();

Kind regards,
Arjan Tijms






On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibucau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> agree CDI/security integration (mainly through Principal bean) is
> completely unusable in practise cause Principal type is too simple (name
> only) and casting is needed in 99.99% of apps. AFAIK It is tracked at
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-597.
>
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> 2017-04-26 15:54 GMT+02:00 John Ament <john.ament at spartasystems.com>:
>
>> Hey guys
>>
>>
>> I raised a bug against the Weld guys, but think its worth an EG
>> discussion.  When a Principal object is injected, the only type it has is
>> Principal.  It does not retain the actual type used at runtime.  This threw
>> me off on some Keycloak integration I'm working on (in $dayjob).  So I was
>> wondering, is this expected from our POV or should it retain the types of
>> the actual runtime instance?
>>
>>
>> John
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