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January 7, 2016
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Custom Authenticator - get User object in order to set User Extenstions properties

  • January 7, 2016
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Hi, I am working on custom authenticator and I would like to store some auth key (from external system) in given user extension property directly in Authenticator code.

In normal service I can use following code:

User user = (User) EntityUtilities.findEntity("Jacek", RelationshipTypes.ThingworxRelationshipTypes.User);
user.setPropertyValue("lastName", new StringPrimitive("Gralak"));


And this works great. However when I am using the same piece of code after fire of successful login event in authenticator User object is null (EntityUtiilites are not able to retrieve user object):

AuthenticationUtilities.validateEnabledThingworxUser(USERNAME);


this.setCredentials(USERNAME);
AuthenticationUtilities.getSecurityMonitorThing().fireSuccessfulLoginEvent(USERNAME,SharedConstants.EMPTY_STRING);

User user = (User) EntityUtilities.findEntity(USERNAME, RelationshipTypes.ThingworxRelationshipTypes.User);
user.setPropertyValue("lastName", new StringPrimitive("authentiocator"));


Here user object is null.

Any hints?

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    bknight-21-Visitor
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    January 24, 2018

    I'm running into this same error.  Any luck on figuring it out?

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    A_Macierzynski15-Moonstone
    15-Moonstone
    January 26, 2018

    According to the doc validateEnabledThingworxUser method is deprecated (in 8.1). Maybe you can try to use validateThingworxUser.

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    bknight-21-Visitor
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    January 26, 2018

    I figured this out.  You need to give the User a Context.  Try this:

                // Start Transaction
                TransactionFactory.beginTransactionRequired();
                ThreadLocalContext.setSecurityContext(SecurityContext.createSuperUserContext());

                // Get User
                User user = (User) EntityUtilities.findEntity(userName, ThingworxRelationshipTypes.User);

                // Set User Property

                user.setPropertyValue("lastName", new StringPrimitive("authenticator"));

                // End Transaction

                TransactionFactory.endTransactionRequired();


    I'm not sure if this needs to be in a transaction, but this works for me.  You'll need to wrap everything in a try/catch.  I have this code in a method that is called after the fireSuccessfulLoginEvent is fired.  Hope this helps you.


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