get j_username in j_security_check JSF 2.0

Question

I have simple page, I want to retrieve j_username to save it in session as a logged in user, i can't fetch it from the form. here Server it self perform authentication in this code

<h:form id="login" onsubmit="document.getElementById('login').action='j_security_check';" prependId="false">
                <h:panelGrid columns="2">
                    <p:outputLabel for="j_username" value="Username" />
                    <p:inputText id="j_username" name="j_username"/>            
                    <p:outputLabel for="j_password" value="Password" />
                    <p:password id="j_password" name="j_password" value=""/>
                    <p:commandButton style="font-size:15px" type="submit"  value="Login" ajax="false"/>
                    <p:commandButton style="font-size:15px" type="clear" value="Clear" ajax="false"/>
                </h:panelGrid>
            </h:form>

Answer 1

It's available by HttpServletRequest#getRemoteUser() which is in JSF context delegated by ExternalContext#getRemoteUser().

So, this should do either in the view:

<ui:fragment rendered="#{empty request.remoteUser}">
    <p>This is only rendered when someone's NOT logged in.</p>
</ui:fragment>
<ui:fragment rendered="#{not empty request.remoteUser}">
    <p>This is only rendered when someone's been logged in.</p>
    <p>Welcome, you're logged in as #{request.remoteUser}!</p>
</ui:fragment>

or in the managed bean:

ExternalContext ec = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext();
String username = ec.getRemoteUser();
// ...

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Unrelated to the concrete problem: it's better to get rid of that onsubmit nonsense and just use plain <form> instead of <h:form>.

<form id="login" action="j_security_check">

This way it'll also work on JS-disabled clients.

See also:

• Performing user authentication in Java EE / JSF using j_security_check