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Get Spring Security Principal in JSP EL expression

Asked 2012-01-28T21:57:38.530
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I am using Spring MVC and Spring Security version 3.0.6.RELEASE. What is the easiest way to get the user name in my JSP? Or even just whether or not the user is logged in? I can think of a couple ways:

1. Using a scriptlet

Using a scriptlet like this to determine if the user is logged in: 

<%=org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextHolder.getContext()
    .getAuthentication().getPrincipal().equals("anonymousUser")
    ? "false":"true"%>

I'm not a fan of using scriptlets, though, and I want to use this in some <c:if> tags, which requires putting it back as a page attribute.

2. Using SecurityContextHolder

I could again use SecurityContextHolder from my @Controller and put it on the model. I need this on every page, though, so I'd rather not have to add this logic in every one of my Controllers.

I suspect there's a cleaner way to do this...

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You can use like this: Spring Security Tag Lib - 3.1.3.RELEASE

<sec:authentication var="principal" property="principal" />

and Then:

${principal.username}
answered 2013-07-02T21:45:09.740
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I was using Maven so I had to add the taglibs library adding this to the pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Then in my jsp added:

<%@ taglib prefix="sec" uri="http://www.springframework.org/security/tags" %>

And:

<sec:authentication property="principal" />

principal.username kept giving me errors (maybe is the way I created the UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken object, not sure).

answered 2013-05-01T14:39:51.337

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