actuate.getUserID() returns null after authenticated using JSAPI - authenticate

Once the user is authenticated using acutate.authenticate(), and tried to access the actuate.getUserID(). It returns null.
 
Any steps is missed out. Plz do know the steps to retrieve the user id once authenticated

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Clement Wong

Are you using single sign-on? Or passing in null into authenticate()?
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://developer.actuate.com/be/documentation/ManualsIHUB31/actuate-api-reference.pdf'>http://developer.actuate.com/be/documentation/ManualsIHUB31/actuate-api-reference.pdf</a>
 
Returns the user name of the logged-in user that was supplied to authenticate(). 
 
If single sign-on is used and login occurs without passing credentials to authenticate( ), this method returns null or an empty string.
 

If it is not behaving as expected, please log a case with Support.

bcmp

Using single sign on....

Clement Wong

null is expected for SSO. For security, the JSAPI login servlet only returns success or failure, and sets a JSESSIONID cookie. No username or other user information is transmitted over the wire.
 
Wouldn't your existing app that first authenticated before the JSAPI authenicate() know the username?
 
A colleague provided a workaround if you truly needed to get the username. 
 
1. Create a JSP under /iportal. This page will return a JSON string of the logged in username.
<pre class="_prettyXprint">
<%@ page language="java" contentType="application/json" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.Arrays" %>
<%@ page import="javax.json.*" %>

<jsp:useBean
 id="userinfobean"
 class="com.actuate.activeportal.beans.UserInfoBean"
 scope="session"/>

<%
response.setHeader("Cache-Control","no-cache");
response.setHeader("Pragma","no-cache");
response.setDateHeader ("Expires", -1);

String user = userinfobean.getUserid();
out.println("{user: '" + user + "'}");
%>
</pre>
2. From your application, make an AJAX call to the JSP page to retrieve the username.

bcmp

In the app as a part of login mechanism, authenticate() method is used for login. From then on, all the call to reporting server are made with null value for username and password.
 
I meant Single sign on this aspect and not the implementation in another application.
 
It was quite informative on other use cases scenario mentioned above. Thanks!

Abdu_Rijas

@Clement Wong This code worked for me today.

Thanks you.