Spring Security: Authentication returns null

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Published on 2010-05-17T08:37:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 8:40 UTC
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Hi!

I implemented FilterInvocationSecurityMetadataSource. in getAttribute, i am trying to extract the Authentication object to achieve the user and get his allowed views from the database:Object principal = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getPrincipal();

but the authentication is null! why? how can i achieve it?

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