How to get id of the current user logged in grails?

Question

I want to display the info about the user logged in like his details etc given during sign up ...how to do it ?? As iam new to grails plz help! iam using Spring security plu

Answer 1

Define (in a controller, or service where you need user id):

SpringSecurityService springSecurityService

and try:

springSecurityService.currentUser.id //loads user from db, and returns its id

or:

springSecurityService.principal.id //if you need just id