5.2.11.3. SecurityContext

SecurityContext class instance stores information about the user session for the current execution thread. It is created and passed to AppContext.setSecurityContext() method in the following moments:

  • For the Web Client and Web Portal blocks – at the beginning of processing of each HTTP request from the user browser.

  • For the Middleware block – at the beginning of processing of each request from the client tier and from CUBA Scheduled Tasks.

  • For the Desktop Client block – once after the user login, as the desktop application is running in single user mode.

In the first two cases, SecurityContext is removed from the execution thread when the request execution is finished.

If you create a new execution thread from the application code, pass the current SecurityContext instance to it as in the example below:

final SecurityContext securityContext = AppContext.getSecurityContext();
executor.submit(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        AppContext.setSecurityContext(securityContext);
        // business logic here
    }
});

The same can be done using SecurityContextAwareRunnable or SecurityContextAwareCallable wrappers, for example:

executor.submit(new SecurityContextAwareRunnable<>(() -> {
     // business logic here
}));
Future<String> future = executor.submit(new SecurityContextAwareCallable<>(() -> {
    // business logic here
    return some_string;
}));