[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBSEAM-967) JBoss Seam - Support authentication from a realm (on Tomcat)

[Bradley Smith (JIRA)]

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-967?page=comments#action_12393974 ] 
            
Bradley Smith commented on JBSEAM-967:
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If you made the principal field of Identity protected instead of private, it would make extension (inheritance) a bit easier.

> JBoss Seam - Support authentication from a realm (on Tomcat)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBSEAM-967
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-967
>             Project: JBoss Seam
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Security
>            Reporter: Bradley Smith
>         Assigned To: Shane Bryzak
>
> Please see discussion in the JBoss forum reference.
> The idea is to allow the Seam Identity (security) component to get the Principal from the HttpServletRequest and to delegate the hasRole() calls to the HttpServletRequest as well.  This is because, in my case, Tomcat has already forced the user to authenticate if necessary and the authentication, authorization information is available in the container's HttpServletRequest impl.
> Principal userPrincipal = httpServletRequest.getUserPrincipal();
> boolean hasRole(String roleName) {
>   return httpServletRequest.isUserInRole(roleName);
> }
> public String getUsername() {
>    return httpServletRequest.getRemoteUser();
> }
> public boolean isLoggedIn() {
>   return httpServletRequest.getUserPrincipal() != null;
> }

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