How to get the role for current user with Spring Security

Question

I'm trying to fetch all the roles for the current user who has been authenticated and show them in a JSP page.

I notice that there are some built-in expressions listed here: http://static.springsource.org/spring-security/site/docs/3.0.x/reference/el-access.html but I don't see any that would list all the roles.

Answer 1

You can use SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getAuthorities() to obtain a collection of the currently logged in user's roles.