Barbara/user info

NEWS.md

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ shiny 1.0.0.9000
 
 ### Minor new features and improvements
 
+* Exported `session$user` (if it exists) to the client-side; it's accessible in the Shiny object: `Shiny.user`. ([#1563](https://github.com/rstudio/shiny/pull/1563))
+
 * Added support for HTML5's `pushState` which allows for pseudo-navigation
 in shiny apps. For more info, see the documentation (`?updateQueryString` and `?getQueryString`). [#1447](https://github.com/rstudio/shiny/pull/1447)
 

R/shiny.R

@@ -202,11 +202,11 @@ workerId <- local({
 #'     \item{\code{singletons} - for internal use}
 #'     \item{\code{url_protocol}, \code{url_hostname}, \code{url_port},
 #'       \code{url_pathname}, \code{url_search}, \code{url_hash_initial}
-#'       and \code{url_hash} can be used to get the components of the URL 
-#'       that was requested by the browser to load the Shiny app page. 
-#'       These values are from the browser's perspective, so neither HTTP 
-#'       proxies nor Shiny Server will affect these values. The 
-#'       \code{url_search} value may be used with \code{\link{parseQueryString}} 
+#'       and \code{url_hash} can be used to get the components of the URL
+#'       that was requested by the browser to load the Shiny app page.
+#'       These values are from the browser's perspective, so neither HTTP
+#'       proxies nor Shiny Server will affect these values. The
+#'       \code{url_search} value may be used with \code{\link{parseQueryString}}
 #'       to access query string parameters.
 #'     }
 #'   }
@@ -758,7 +758,8 @@ ShinySession <- R6Class(
       private$sendMessage(
         config = list(
           workerId = workerId(),
-          sessionId = self$token
+          sessionId = self$token,
+          user = self$user
         )
       )
     },

srcjs/shinyapp.js

@@ -631,7 +631,8 @@ var ShinyApp = function() {
   });
 
   addMessageHandler('config', function(message) {
-    this.config = message;
+    this.config = {workerId: message.workerId, sessionId: message.sessionId};
+    if (message.user != null) exports.user = message.user;
   });
 
   addMessageHandler('busy', function(message) {