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why request.getUserPrincipal() always giving me null...

843842Jun 9 2008 — edited Jun 9 2008
I have written following code:
<%@ include file="/WEB-INF/I18n.inc" %>
 <%@ page import="..."%>

<HTML>


<%
	out.print("Came to correct page");
	AardvarkSecurityPlugin asp = new AardvarkSecurityPlugin();
	Properties p1 = new Properties();
    
	p1.put("pluginclass","com.firstbase.framework.security2.plugin.AardvarkSecurityPlugin");
        p1.put("logname","Securitytest");
        p1.put("securitydomain","AARDVARK");
        p1.put("applications","AARDVARK");
        p1.put("dsname","FirstBase");
        p1.put("cachelife","10000");

	asp.init(p1);

	String email = "d@d.com";
	String pwd = "password";
	
	Principal p = asp.authenticate(request, email, "FORM", pwd);
	
	System.out.println("Seems principal is:" + p);
	System.out.println("Principal in session 1:" + session.getAttribute("PRINCIPAL_USER").toString());
	System.out.println("Principal in session 2:" + session.getAttribute("org.apache.catalina.authenticator.PRINCIPAL").toString());
	System.out.println("Principal in session 3:" + request.getUserPrincipal());
	
%>

<a href="/tester/servlet/FsmServlet?MACH_NAME=STUDENT&ACTION_NAME=Welcome"> click here </a>

</body>
</HTML>
in which AardvarkSecurityPlugin is class derived from DefaultSecurityPlugin..when I am dont with authentication among 4 above sop's first 3 are printing something but request.getUserPrincipal() always giving null. please let me know where am I missing.authenticate method is having followign code peice:
        HttpSession session = req.getSession();
        SessionLogin login = getSessionLogin(session);
        Credentials credentialsObject =createCredentials(req,username,password);
        LoginResult result = login.validateCredentials(credentialsObject);
        //check for principal associates with the correct clint for asserion app
        

        if (result.isSuccess()){ // Login event has succeeded
          principal = new AuthenticatedUser(username);
           roleTable.remove(username);
       try{
          SecurityLogger.log(securityDomain,principal, SecurityLogger.AUTHENTICATED,
                              "user Logged In", "AUTHENTICATED", dsName);
       }
       catch(Exception e){
          Logger.log("UserManager",Logger.ERROR,"exception in updation last logged exception is "+e);
       }
      
      session.setAttribute("com.firstbase.framework.security2.LoginResult", result);
        // Destroy user profiles
        // If the user has logged on successfully then delete the LoginSession
        // object since it is no longer required
        if (principal!=null){
          session.removeAttribute("com.firstbase.framework.security2.SessionLogin");
           session.setAttribute(ServletConstants.PRINCIPAL_USER,principal);
           if (preload)
              loadUser(username);
        }
        return principal;
    }
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