[Catalyst] $c->user and session questions

[Tomas Doran]

On 31 May 2012, at 14:00, Kenneth S Mclane wrote:

> I have an LDAP server authenticating my users. The look up returns a ton of fields in a hash. My questions are as follows: 
> 
> 1. What happens to this data/information? Is it stored in the $c->user object? 

Yes

> 2. If it is, how do I access it? 

https://metacpan.org/module/Catalyst::Authentication::Store::LDAP::User

Like that. Specifically the ->ldap_entry method is probably what you're after.

> 3. Is there a simple way to look at what is stored in the user object? 

Data::Dumper::Dumper($c->user) ?

> 4. I would like to store the users role in the session object so it can be accessed for authorization purposes. The docs only have an example of storing stuff in a shopping cart, which is a bit more than I need, but there isn't enough there for me to figure out how to store just one thing, and retrieve it, of course. Can someone show me how to do this? 
> 

You need to override the user class, and implement the for_session and from_session methods to get additionally stuff serialized.

Cheers
t0m