How to implement CurrentUserProvider with no statically accessible context?

[chris ryan]

Hello,

I'm currently using @SoftDelete and @History for a given model and realized the modified by / modified date is not being updated when deleting the model. That realization led me to the @WhoModified annotation, which needs me to implement CurrentUserProvider.

I'm currently using play framework which deprecated the ability to statically access requests. They changed to a design where the only way to access a request (and thus the current user) is by receiving it as an argument from inside a controller.

Is there another way about this? Like is there a delete method that accepts a string/username as the 'who modified'? 

Thanks,

Chris

[Rob Bygrave]

> Is there another way about this? Like is there a delete method that accepts a string/username as the 'who modified'?

Hmmm. Perhaps have a @Transient dummy property that you set the 'who' value to ... and use a BeanPersistAdapter preUpdate() or preSoftDelete() ... and in there set the dummy value to the column/property in question.

That might work.