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Hello All,themeDisplay.getUserName() is not working properly in javascript. It is giving ASCII string. Please refer screenshot.

Is there any other way to get userName in javascript or I have to make service call to get userName?Thanks in advance.

It looks like the user you took the screenshot with is named "Test Test" - "\u0054\u0065\u0073\u0074\u0020\u0054\u0065\u0073\u0074" is the Unicode encoding of that string, so the result comes in an unexpected encoding, but it's there. Which (exact) version are you on?

Hi Olaf,Thanks for the reply.I am using Liferay 7.2 Sp1 EE. I am trying  to get username in main.js and it is returning unicode value for username. It should give proper username instead of Unicode string.
Thanks..

Hi Varun,You can get user name in javascript as following :


var r = /\\u([\d\w]{4})/gi;
var userName = themeDisplay.getUserName().replace(r, function (match, grp) {
    return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(grp, 16)); } );
console.log(userName);