Accessing a com.tridion.user.User object without a page context?

Question

I have a tricky one for the hardcore Tridion CD people here...

I want to load and enrich a User's CustomerCharacteristics from an Ambient Data Cartridge, but been struggling to find a way to load/find this object.

The correct way of loading a user is to use:

JSPPage jspPage = new JSPPage(pageContext, "tcm:1-2-64");
User user = jspPage.getUser();

But in the context of a cartridge I am running before the page, and I don't have access to the pageContext object. Or do I?

Does anyone know a way to get the PageContext object for a page from a filter? And would there be an easy-ish way to make this object available to a Cartridge?

Answer 1

The context is not available in a Cartridge or ADF because there are different implementations in .Net and Java for it and ADF should be technology agnostic.

What about using this class.

User user = UserManager.CheckUser(presentationId, userId, login);

This API does not need the context, now, how to get the userId, if it is an existing user, it will be stored in the WAI cookie, I think you can use a Cookie claim to read it or read it in a previous Filter/Http Module and put it in the claim store.