How do you get more specific details from the object returned by getLoggedInUser()?

[Alexis Evans]

I am using the getLoggedInUser() method and saving the object it returns to a variable. However, instead, I want to specifically get the name of the logged in user, as opposed to the entire object. Is there a way to see the entire logged in user object listed out, or specifically pull bits of information from it? A hypothetical example might be getLoggedInUser().name to pull the name.

[Mohamed Benziane · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Welcome to the community.

When you use getloggedinuser() you get an ApplicationUser object so you can use some methode from this class

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/7.0.6/com/atlassian/jira/user/ApplicationUser.html

[Alexis Evans]

Oh awesome, thanks so much! It looks like it includes the getName() method so that should work for what I'm looking for. It would probably be getLoggedInUser().getName() correct?

[Mohamed Benziane]

Yes getLoggedInUser() will give you the user's username.