[OAK-5903] Authentication: add extension to retrieve user principal

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0, 1.8.0
• Component/s: core
• Labels: performance
• Assignee: Angela Schreiber
• Reporter: Angela Schreiber
• Created: 07/Mar/17 15:04
• Updated: 30/May/17 08:38
• Resolved: 07/Mar/17 16:36

Description

In the current default setup the implementations of the Authentication interface resolve a user for the given login credentials but don't provide means to retrieve the associated principal. Consequently upon LoginModule.commit the user needs to resolved a second time to compute the set of all principals. This could be simplified by using PrincipalProvider.getGroupMembership(Principal) if the users principals was available upon successful call to Authentication.authenticate.

Issue Links

• relates to: OAK-4462 LoginModuleImpl: option to have AuthInfo populated with userId instead of loginName