Intercept Jira issues macro in Confluence to use another different user

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We have a confluence instance that uses the Jira Issues macro.
Users that access Confluence won’t have access to the Jira project, so I wanted to intercept the call to Jira issues and use a default user.

My servlet filter is as follows:

<servlet-filter name="Portal Jira Issues Filter" key="jiraIssuesFilter"
                      class="com.xxx.filter.JiraIssuesFilter" location="before-decoration">
    <url-pattern>/rest/jiraanywhere/1.0/jira/clientIds*</url-pattern>
    <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</servlet-filter>

Which triggers nicely on the load of the page.
I have the following code in the doFilter method:

package com.xxx.filter;

import com.atlassian.applinks.api.ApplicationLink;
import com.atlassian.applinks.api.ApplicationLinkRequest;
import com.atlassian.applinks.api.ApplicationLinkRequestFactory;
import com.atlassian.applinks.api.ApplicationLinkService;
import com.atlassian.applinks.api.application.jira.JiraApplicationType;

import com.atlassian.confluence.user.AuthenticatedUserThreadLocal;
import com.atlassian.confluence.user.ConfluenceUser;
import com.atlassian.confluence.user.ConfluenceUserManager;
import com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.annotation.component.Scanned;
import com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.annotation.imports.ComponentImport;
import com.atlassian.sal.api.net.Request;

import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Named;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import java.io.IOException;


@Scanned
@Named("jiraIssuesFilter")
public class JiraIssuesFilter implements Filter {

    @ComponentImport
    private final com.atlassian.sal.api.user.UserManager salUserManager;

    @ComponentImport
    private final ApplicationLinkService applicationLinkService;

    @ComponentImport
    private final ConfluenceUserManager userManager;

    @Override
    public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {}

    @Inject
    public JiraIssuesFilter(final com.atlassian.sal.api.user.UserManager salUserManager,
                            final ApplicationLinkService applicationLinkService,
                            final ConfluenceUserManager userManager) {
        this.salUserManager = salUserManager;
        this.applicationLinkService = applicationLinkService;
        this.userManager = userManager;
    }

    @Override
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest servletRequest, ServletResponse servletResponse, FilterChain filterChain) throws IOException, ServletException {

        HttpServletRequest httpRequest = (HttpServletRequest) servletRequest;
        String url = httpRequest.getRequestURI();


        ApplicationLink jiraLink = applicationLinkService.getPrimaryApplicationLink(JiraApplicationType.class);

        try {
            ConfluenceUser user = (ConfluenceUser) this.userManager.getUser("myportal");
            AuthenticatedUserThreadLocal.set(user);
            ApplicationLinkRequestFactory requestFactory = jiraLink.createAuthenticatedRequestFactory();
            ApplicationLinkRequest request = requestFactory.createRequest(Request.MethodType.valueOf(httpRequest.getMethod()), url);
            request.execute();

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }


        filterChain.doFilter((ServletRequest) servletRequest , (ServletResponse) servletResponse);
    }

    @Override
    public void destroy() {}
}

When I try to install the plugin, it hangs and I can’t work out why. There are no errors in the logs.

My dependencies are:

 <dependency>
            <groupId>com.atlassian.confluence</groupId>
            <artifactId>confluence</artifactId>
            <version>${confluence.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.atlassian.plugin</groupId>
            <artifactId>atlassian-spring-scanner-annotation</artifactId>
            <version>${atlassian.spring.scanner.version}</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.atlassian.applinks/applinks-api -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.atlassian.applinks</groupId>
            <artifactId>applinks-api</artifactId>
            <version>7.1.3</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.atlassian.plugin</groupId>
            <artifactId>atlassian-spring-scanner-runtime</artifactId>
            <version>${atlassian.spring.scanner.version}</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
            <version>1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/servlet-api -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.3</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.atlassian.sal</groupId>
            <artifactId>sal-api</artifactId>
            <version>${atlassian.sal-api}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

Any help to identify what I’m missing would be fantastic.

marina.

2

Hard to figure out without any log messages.

One thing that popped out from your setup. You are importing two different UserManager components. I have seen an issue like this before and I think the solution was to give them different “keys”

@ComponentImport("confluenceUserManager")
private final ConfluenceUserManager userManager;

@ComponentImport("salUserManager")
 private final com.atlassian.sal.api.user.UserManager salUserManager;