KM - Java iView - User Authentication

Question

Hello all,
I'm writing a simple KM iView in Java for EP6.0.
I want to experiment with resources; accessing, creating etc.
I use the following code to create my IUser and access the resource context
IUser user = userFactory.getUser(request.getUser().getUniqueName());
IResourceContext resourceContext = new ResourceContext(user);
If I access the resource "/", everything is fine, it gets found and I can display it's children, one of them being "/documents". When I try to access this resource I cannot because "User is not authenticated". I cannot access any other collections for the same reason. I can access a file I've created underneath "/documents", my iView displays that the file was 'found' but I cannot work with the file (e.g. display its content type) because "User is not authenticated".
So how does a user become authenticated? Is this a user mapping issue, something that can be resolved by the portals user administrator, something I can do in Java, or something completely different?
As always, any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time,
Patrick.

Answer 1

Hey Armin,
Thanks for that, it worked a treat.
I had taken example code from the PDK where creating the IUser was written as
IUser user = .....
I guess they thought that it was so simple they didn't need to write it. I knew that I could access the portal user from the request and then I looked at the API there to see if any methods returned an IUser, that's why I was using getUniqueName(). It seemed to make sense.
One question though, I see that the method for creating the user that you gave me has been deprecated. Has the new method been released or is it on its way, do you know?
Thanks again for the solution. I awarded you the points.
Patrick.