Trying to get the information of session WebFlow Spring

Question

I'm trying to get the information of the session created with spring security. I want to get it in a flow of spring webflow. I tryed this:

<evaluate expression="SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getPrincipal()" result="flowScope.information"/>

But it doesn't works...

Thank you

Answer 1

Use the special EL variable currentUser to get access to the Authentication object:

http://static.springsource.org/spring-webflow/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/spring-webflow-reference.html#el-variable-currentUser