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

bcmp

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

Clement Wong

<p>Are you using single sign-on?  Or passing in null into authenticate()?</p>
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<p><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></p&gt;
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<p style="margin-left:40px;"><em>Returns the user name of the logged-in user that was supplied to authenticate().<br>
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If single sign-on is used and login occurs without passing credentials to authenticate( ), this method returns null or an empty string.</em></p>
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If it is not behaving as expected, please log a case with Support.</p>

bcmp

<p>Using single sign on....</p>

Clement Wong

<p>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.</p>
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<p>Wouldn't your existing app that first authenticated before the JSAPI authenicate() know the username?</p>
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<p>A colleague provided a workaround if you truly needed to get the username. </p>
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<p>1. Create a JSP under /iportal.  This page will return a JSON string of the logged in username.</p>
<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>
<p>2. From your application, make an AJAX call to the JSP page to retrieve the username.</p>

bcmp

<p>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.</p>
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<p>I meant Single sign on this aspect and not the implementation in another application.</p>
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<p>It was quite informative on other use cases scenario mentioned above. Thanks!</p>

Abdu_Rijas

@Clement Wong This code worked for me today.

Thanks you.