[Building Sakai] Is there a way to get the username?

[Paul Dagnall]

Thanks Noah! - Yeah. Right now I'm leaning toward the servlet route. This
might be the best solution for our situation.

Paul Dagnall
Application Developer & Administrator
University of Dayton


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Noah Botimer <botimer at umich.edu> wrote:

> So, you're looking for a link that a learner would click to go to an
> external, personalized URL?
>
> There are a couple of ways to manage this...
>
> 1. Implement the IMS LTI spec on the external system so it is a Tool
> Provider -- this is the most complete and secure way, but obviously more
> involved
>
> 2. Implement a quick Servlet / EntityProvider to look up the current user
> and issue a redirect with the appropriate destination -- the links would be
> back to the Sakai instance (and be static, not including username)
>
> Depending on how user-friendly you need this to be, it may involve an
> addition to Lessons or a CKEditor plugin.
>
> Another hackish angle is that you can use the existing EntityProviders to
> get current user information via AJAX and rewrite the link or update
> window.location -- this would require some scripting mojo.
>
> Thanks,
> -Noah
>
> On Jan 14, 2014, at 10:18 AM, Paul Dagnall wrote:
>
> Adrian - Is the UserDirectoryService exposed to the content area editable
> by the ckeditor though? My goal is for content creators to be able to make
> lessonbuilder content that would include such a link.
>
> Paul Dagnall
> Application Developer & Administrator
> University of Dayton
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> So, you're rendering a link in a lessonbuilder page, and you want to
>> embed the current user's name in it? In that case, just use
>> UserDirectoryService.getCurrentUser, which will get you a Sakai User
>> object. You can then call getFirstName, getLastName and getEid on that
>> object.
>>
>> If you have a look in ShowPageProducer, you'll see examples of that
>> method in use.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adrian.
>>
>>
>>  On 14 January 2014 14:51, Paul Dagnall <pdagnall1 at udayton.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi
>>> Does anyone know of a way to get the current user's username and expose
>>> it so it can be accessed by that user from a sakai content page?
>>>
>>> There is an external system we are trying to access from a html link in
>>> the Lessons tool. Basically we'd like the link to be something like this:
>>>
>>> http://externalSystem.edu/program.php?userName=*<current user name>*
>>> &otherParam=value
>>>
>>> I know there's a webservice that will get me the user name if I have the
>>> session id, which I don't think is available in that scope.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Paul Dagnall
>>> Application Developer & Administrator
>>> University of Dayton
>>>
>>>
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