How to get logged in user in SAP Cloud Platform (Neo environment)

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Introduction:

• In this session, we will look at how to get the logged in user in SAP Cloud Platform (Neo environment)

Synopsis:

• SAP Cloud Platform can be set up with any Identity Provider that supports SAML
• When building SAPUI5 applications, we can require that users be authenticated against this Identity Provider
• There may be many instances where you might want to display user specific messages on the home page (for example, some form of welcome message) – and for this you need to know the logged in user

Steps:

• SAP Cloud Platform provides an userapi service that can readily give you the current logged in user
• So it’s just a matter of calling the userapi service from within your application and displaying the user information in the user interface
• We could make a simple REST API call using the window’s fetch command in our controller files

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Conclusion:

• This video should give you a clear idea on how to get the logged in user in SAP Cloud Platform Neo environment
• In the next video, we will look at how to get the logged in user in SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry environment
• If you have any questions or comments, please list them below and I will be happy to answer

Related post:

https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/23/how-to-get-logged-in-user-in-sap-cloud-platform-cloud-foundry/