Please cherry-pick:

[jjobs-war.git] / src / java / org / mxchange / jjobs / beans / BaseJobsController.java

diff --git a/src/java/org/mxchange/jjobs/beans/BaseJobsController.java b/src/java/org/mxchange/jjobs/beans/BaseJobsController.java
index de5289f47f88887857c4e31a6328a3473300a702..a9f461ab756ed5bbe2cb4c4b700634ff96dfe256 100644 (file)
--- a/src/java/org/mxchange/jjobs/beans/BaseJobsController.java
+++ b/src/java/org/mxchange/jjobs/beans/BaseJobsController.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.mxchange.jjobs.beans;
 
 import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.security.Principal;
 import java.text.MessageFormat;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.MissingResourceException;
@@ -36,6 +37,29 @@ public abstract class BaseJobsController implements Serializable {
         */
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 50_837_597_127_567_140L;
 
+       /**
+        * Determines principal's name or returns null if no principal (security) is
+        * set.
+        * <p>
+        * @return Principal's name or null
+        */
+       protected String determinePrincipalName () {
+               // Get principal
+               Principal userPrincipal = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getUserPrincipal();
+
+               // Init with null
+               String principalName = null;
+
+               // Is the principal set?
+               if (userPrincipal instanceof Principal) {
+                       // Get principal's name
+                       principalName = userPrincipal.getName();
+               }
+
+               // Return it
+               return principalName;
+       }
+
        /**
         * Returns given property key or throws an exception if not found.
         * <p>