[Building Sakai] Sakai new Tool - currentUser

[John Bush]

Are you sure that sakai' request filter is being used on every
request, without that you are dead in the water.  Might want to review
your web.xml.

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Jaco Gillman <jaco at opencollab.co.za> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am in the process of creating a new Sakai Tool. Programmatically creating
> course Sites, adding users, creating groups etc etc.
>
> When I select the tool as Admin, my first request contains this admin user,
> but all other requests inside my tool return a User object from
> userDirectoryService.getCurrentUser(); with no ID or EID value. I then tried
> to set this user on the HttpSession, but again, once I enter my tool's
> context, and any other controller method, the user object is no where to be
> found on the session. Some of my previous emails mentioned the fact that I
> struggled to create Course Site, add users due to Permission restrictions.
>
>
> I used the Sakai archetype to create the tool.  I have created a Service
> interface, with which my tool's frond-end integrates with, and in my Service
> implementation I integrate with
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaco Gillman
>
> Java Developer
>
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