RE: How to retrieve the calling User in a custom function without passing it as a parameter ?

davidl0016 — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:57:36 GMT

	@Function
	public TypedValue sysInfo(ServiceContext
			  sc,UserProfileService ups_) throws AppianException {
		HashMap<TypedValue, TypedValue> ret = new HashMap<TypedValue, TypedValue>();
		try {
			
			UserProfile profile = ups_.getUser(sc.getName());
			if (!profile.getUserTypeId().equals(UserProfile.USER_TYPE_SYS_ADMIN)) {
				String errorText = "User " + profile.getUsername()
						+ " is not a System Administrator.  You must run sysInfo as an administrator.";
				LOG.error(errorText);
				throw new Exception(errorText);
			}
			
	.....

RE: How to retrieve the calling User in a custom function without passing it as a parameter ?

davidl0016 — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:56:41 GMT

After exploring different plugins, it appears that the only context injectable in custom functions is com.appiancorp.services.ServiceContext.

Since then, it's possible to retrieve the caller like shown in the next reply.