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Robbie
Robbie

Reputation: 101

Getting a numeric userId when calling request.getRemoteUser

So here's what I'm trying to do:

I'm trying to call a servlet/controller (whatever i could get to work first) from a liferay theme.

Here's what i did: I made a controller named XController then generated a url to call it using:

#set ($embeddedPortletURL = $portletURLFactory.create($request, "workspace_WAR_xportlet", $page.plid, "RESOURCE_PHASE"))
<input id="workspaceSearchUrl" value="${embeddedPortletURL}" type="hidden">

Then for the ajax call, i used $("#workspaceSearchUrl").val() + "&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=doSomething" as the url. I was able to call the portlet no problem, however whenever i call portletRequest.getRemoteUser(), I get a userId of "2203" instead of the logged in user.

So... what exactly did i do wrong? And why is the getRemoteUser method returning me a number?

Edit: Just to be clear, other ajax calls to other controllers return a valid user id (text).

I also tried to call a servlet instead, however calling getRemoteUser returns a null. I guess this means that servlets don't share the session with the portal?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 624

Answers (2)

Learner
Learner

Reputation: 976

You can get user object by userId like this.

User user = UserLocalServiceUtil.getUser(userId);

String name = user.getFirstname();

Upvotes: 0

Sticcio
Sticcio

Reputation: 196

If you can, try to use 

User currentUser = PortalUtil.getUser(portletRequest);
long userId = currentUser.getUserId();

Upvotes: 1

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