[jboss-as7-dev] SecurityAssociation, getCallerPrincipal() returns null

[Anil Saldhana]

Alessio,
   when we remove it, we will provide documentation on alternative usage.

Regards,
Anil

On 05/20/2011 08:40 AM, Alessio Soldano wrote:
> Hi Anil,
> are you talking about org.jboss.security.SecurityAssociation? I'm 
> using that (can see it in PicketBox 4.0.0.Beta3) currently on AS7, 
> most probably my tests go through different usage and both set and get 
> the principal. Can you point me to some doc or share info on what's 
> going to be used instead of it?
> Thanks
> Alessio
>
> On 05/20/2011 03:27 PM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
>> Hi Christoph,
>>     SecurityAssociation class was deprecated in AS5/6.  It will be
>> removed in AS7.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anil
>>
>> On 05/20/2011 05:11 AM, Christoph Gostner wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm testing the authentication mechanism in JBoss AS 7.
>>> I tried to access the caller principal (mainly to display the
>>> princiapl's name).
>>> But the Method SecurityAssociation.getCallerPrincipal() always returns
>>> null.
>>>        if(!server)
>>>           return principal;
>>> where principal is null
>>>
>>> I tested it with BasicAuthentication and JBoss Negotiation, in both 
>>> cases
>>> the caller principal is null. Compared to JBoss AS 5, the principal is
>>> set.
>>>
>>> Could this be an error or is the method not implemented correctly 
>>> (yet)?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Christoph
>>