Find inherited user roles, assigned by a group in a Liferay Theme 6.1.1 GA2

Question

we want to check in a Liferay-Theme for 6.1.1 GA2, if the currently signed in user has a role e.g. "myRole".

The role is defined and assigned to the user, by adding the user to a group where this role is assigned.

When i check the user roles in control panel, the group is shown correctly for that user in the user list. Editing the user, the Roles-Panel shows in "Inherited Roles" the assigned group.

In theme a simple

#set ($usrRoles = $user.getRoles())
#foreach( $usrRole in $usrRoles )
    <p>$usrRole.getName()</p>
#end

only returns the directly assigned roles not the from group inherited roles.

Is there another method to get these roles? Or is this just one more bug in Liferay?

Answer 1

If you are using liferay usergroup you can retrieve associated roles through UserGroupRoleLocalService.

Add this code after your:

#set($userGroupRoleLocalService= $serviceLocator.findService("com.liferay.portal.service.UserGroupRoleLocalService"))

#set($ugUsrRoles = $userGroupRoleLocalService.getUserGroupRoles($user.getUserId()))

#foreach( $ugUsrRole in $ugUsrRoles )
    <p>$ugUsrRole.getRole().getName()</p>
#end

This is an interesting list of all the liferay objects available in velocity: Access Objects from Velocity