Question

I’ve got a domain-class with a user reference:

class MyThing {
    MyUser createdBy
    //...

And with using the Spring Security plugin, I have a fairly basic Person class setup except I’m trying to obtain the user’s email address from reference. Using springSecurityService.principal works great but only for the currently logged in user.

How can I get the user’s email address?

If I can’t simply “lookup” by username reference, then is it possible to extend my Person class to acquire email address from the LDAP plugin and save to the database?

Answer 1

I solved my problem by first adding an email property to my Person class.

class MyUser {
    String username
    String email

Then by using a ldap template attributes map, I was able to pull the email as well as the username.

tokens.add(attributes.get("sAMAccountName").get().toString());
tokens.add(attributes.get("mail").get().toString());

From there it was just getting the property createdBy.email