Accessing user attributes from a pipeline component

Hello,
I'm using WLCS & WLPS 3.1. I use webflow and I have implemented the page
transition myself to work with the portal. Everything is working fine.
I'm planning to implement a complex step of a business process as a pipeline
component. For various reasons, this PC will be implemented as an EJB. To
perform its job, this PC needs to get information about the user that is
currently logged in. More specifically, it needs to lookup custom attributes
from the user profile (i.e. user property set).
So my question is : is this possible directly from the PC, or do I have to
populate the pipeline session with required information in the input
processor?
Thank you for your advice
Nicolas

Hello Ture,
Thanks for both posts.
Nicolas
"Ture Hoefner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
... To perform its job, this PC needs to get information about the userthat
is
currently logged in. More specifically, it needs to lookup customattributes
from the user profile (i.e. user property set).
So my question is : is this possible directly from the PC, or do I haveto
populate the pipeline session with required information in the input
processor?Hello Nicolas,
I have not tried this myself. I think that the disconnect between the
pipeline session and the portal session is probably the fact that theattributes
in the portal session have their keys "fixed up" by prepending the portal
request URI. This is made possible by the
com.beasys.commerce.foundation.flow.jsp.DefaultDestinationDeterminer,which the
PortalDestinationDeterminer extends. It puts a "TRAFFIC.URI" attributeinto the
each request that goes through the FlowManagerServlet for the portal. Inthe
Acme exampleportal, the "SERVICEMANAGER.USER" attribute is put into theportal
HttpSession as "exampleportal.SERVICEMANAGER.USER".
If you want to get to the cached profile from your portal from yourpipeline
component (PC) then you would have to know that the name is "fixed up" tobe
"exampleportal.CACHED_PROFILE". There are probably several different waysyou
could get the "TRAFFIC.URI" information to your PC.
Ture Hoefner
BEA Systems, Inc.
2590 Pearl St.
Suite 110
Boulder, CO 80302
www.bea.com

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