Getting user credentials in a grails application using Spring Security

Getting user credentials in a grails application using Spring Security is pretty easy

If you followed the instructions given for spring security plugin then LoginController takes care of storing the user credentaisl for you.
To retrieve the stored credentials you need to do these
1. Import SecurityContextHolder
import org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextHolder as SCH

2.Get the principal
SCH.context?.authentication?.principal

3. once you get hold of the principal object you can retrieve and use any creds.

SCH.context?.authentication?.principal?.username

Update: Thanks for Burt for pointing out how I can make this easier.

I can use SpringSecurity service injected  by declaring

def springSecurityService

Then this can be used like 

                     springSecurityService.principal 

to get the principal.

Removing unwanted jar dependencies in the grails built war file

Peter Ledbrook shared a neat way of removing runtime dependency in the grails built war file. If for e.g. we wanted to exclude hsqldb
    grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
        inherits("global") {
            if (Environment.current == Environment.PRODUCTION) {
                exclude "hsqldb"
            }
        }
        ...
    }