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+<?php
+/**
+ * Nextcloud - News
+ *
+ * This file is licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or
+ * later. See the COPYING file.
+ *
+ * @author    Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal@gmail.com>
+ * @author    Bernhard Posselt <dev@bernhard-posselt.com>
+ * @author    David Guillot <david@guillot.me>
+ * @copyright 2020 Sean Molenaar <sean@seanmolenaar.eu>
+ */
+
+namespace OCA\News\Controller;
+
+use OCP\AppFramework\Controller as BaseController;
+use \OCP\IRequest;
+use OCP\IUser;
+use \OCP\IUserSession;
+
+/**
+ * Class ApiController
+ *
+ * @package OCA\News\Controller
+ */
+class Controller extends BaseController
+{
+    /**
+     * @var IUserSession
+     */
+    private $userSession;
+
+    /**
+     * ApiController constructor.
+     *
+     * Stores the user session to be able to leverage the user in further methods
+     *
+     * @param string        $appName        The name of the app
+     * @param IRequest      $request        The request
+     * @param IUserSession  $userSession    The user session
+     */
+    public function __construct(string $appName, IRequest $request, IUserSession $userSession)
+    {
+        parent::__construct($appName, $request);
+        $this->userSession = $userSession;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return IUser
+     */
+    protected function getUser()
+    {
+        return $this->userSession->getUser();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return string
+     */
+    protected function getUserId()
+    {
+        return $this->getUser()->getUID();
+    }
+}