Adding Attributes to the Principal

[Ross Bleakney]

I would like to return more than the user name from the server. So, I
changed my authentication handler to do the following:





public class MyHandler implements AuthenticationHandler{

    public boolean authenticate(Credentials cred) throws AuthenticationException {

        UsernamePasswordCredentials upCred = (UsernamePasswordCredentials) cred;



        String username = upCred.getUsername();

        String password = upCred.getPassword();

        try {

            MyAccount account = MyAccount.authenticate(username, password);

            UsernamePasswordCredentialsToPrincipalResolver resolver =

               new UsernamePasswordCredentialsToPrincipalResolver();

            Principal principal = resolver.resolvePrincipal(upCred);

            StubPersonAttributeDao stub = new StubPersonAttributeDao();

            HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>(principal.getAttributes());

            map.put("AccountID", account.getAccountID());

            stub.setBackingMap(map);

            resolver.setAttributeRepository(stub);

        } catch (Throwable e) {

            return false;

        }

       

        return true;

    }

    ...

}




So, now I have a few questions:



1) Should this work?

2) How do I get the information out on the client side (servlet)? 



I can get the receipt from the client side (using
session.getAttribute(CASFilter.CAS_FILTER_RECEIPT)), but I don't know
how to resolve that into a set of attributes. If I just had a lump of
xml, I could easily parse through it, but I don't know how to get that.



Thanks,

Ross
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