How to get hold of the XPRequest object in the Login View

Question

Hi all,
I need to customize the Login View to pre-populate the loginname field when a user hits the page. The difficult part is that the user is using PKI Cards, and I need to use the following server-side code fragment to retreive the Login Name.
String loginName = "";Object o = request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate");
// Got certificate => Windows XP PKI Card Userif (o != null) { String dnstring = ""; int startIndex = 0, endIndex = 0; java.security.cert.X509Certificate clientcert[] = (java.security.cert.X509Certificate[]) o; dnstring = clientcert[0].getSubjectDN().toString().toUpperCase(); // Gets the Login name // This is obtained by getting the portion of the string after "UID=" and befroe the next comma. startIndex = dnstring.indexOf("UID=") + 4; endIndex = dnstring.indexOf(",", startIndex+1); loginName = dnstring.substring(startIndex, endIndex);}
The problem is that I can't seem to get hold of a XPRequest object (the Plumtree object used to wrap the JSP request object) in the Login View. I need this to call the request.GetAttribute method to retrieve the client certificate.
Anyone knows how to do this? Or maybe I should be customizing another component instead?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Weng Kong Lee

Answer 1

From the 5.0.4 JavaDocs for AActivitySpace:
com.plumtree.uiinfrastructure.activityspace.IXPRequest[b]GetCurrentHTTPRequest() Return the HTTP Request for the current request. com.plumtree.uiinfrastructure.activityspace.IXPResponse[b]GetCurrentHTTPResponse() Return the HTTP Response for the current request.
Hope this helps clear things up.
-- Don