How to get the role for current user with Spring Security

spring-mvc, spring-security, waffle

Solution

You can use `SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getAuthorities()` to obtain a collection of the currently logged in user's roles.

Problem

I'm trying to fetch all the roles for the current user who has been authenticated and show them in a JSP page. I notice that there are some built-in expressions listed here: http://static.springsource.org/spring-security/site/docs/3.0.x/reference/el-access.html but I don't see any that would list all the roles.

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