public interface AuditorAware<T>

Interface for components that are aware of the application's current auditor. This will be used to populate

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annotated fields in domain objects.

Implementations should be registered as Spring beans. The type parameter should match the type of the auditor field in your domain classes (e.g., User, Long, String, etc.).

Example implementation:

@Component
 public class SpringSecurityAuditorAware implements AuditorAware<String> {
     @Override
     public Optional<String> getCurrentAuditor() {
         return Optional.ofNullable(SecurityContextHolder.getContext())
                 .map(SecurityContext::getAuthentication)
                 .filter(Authentication::isAuthenticated)
                 .map(Authentication::getName);
     
 }
 }

Type Parameters:

T - the type of the auditor (e.g., User, Long, String)

Authors:

Scott Murphy Heiberg

Since:

7.1