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Alternate for deprecated methods in AEM?

To get User Name or User Email, 

com.day.cq.security.profile.Profile

can be used. But it is depricated from CQ5.5. What should be the work around?

Solution

  • Use the classes from org.apache.jackrabbit.api.security.user package. You can access User via the UserManager (which you can get by calling adaptTo(UserManager.class) on a ResourceResolver). User supports the getProperty method, which can be used to get "profile/email", "profile/familyName", etc.

    EDIT

    The WorkflowProcess.execute method has WorkflowSession parameter. To access the UserManager from a WorkflowSession, cast its session to a org.apache.jackrabbit.api.JackrabbitSession, which has a getUserManager() method:

    JackrabbitSession js = (JackrabbitSession)workflowSession.getSession();
UserManager um = js.getUserManager();