Current Portal User in a Portal service

Question

Hi,
I have created a Portal service which is exposed as a web service, serving to fetch current logged-in user in Portal.
This web service has been called from a BSP program that which is exposed on Portal as an iView.
The requirement is, when the user runs this BSP program from Portal, the program should call the Web Service and get the user who is currently using the page. This works fine except the Portal service always returns un:Guest user. I used below menthod to get the current logged in user:
public String getLoggedinUser()
            IUser sapUser = UMFactory.getAuthenticator().getLoggedInUser();
            String uID = sapUser.getUniqueID();
            String[] users = uID.split("\\.");
            return users[users.length - 1];
I checked for existing solutions in the forum but they work for a Portal component. How can I achieve the desired result using a Portal Service or otherwise ? Please help.
Thanks,
Aditya.

Answer 1

Hi Aditya,
Try below code -
String _pmfKey = null;
IPortalComponentRequest componentRequest =(IPortalComponentRequest) getRequest();
IUserFactory userFactory = UMFactory.getUserFactory();
IUser myUser =userFactory.getUser(componentRequest.getUser().getUniqueID());
_pmfKey = myUser.getName();
Regards,
Sen