> Peter Baer wrote: > > We need the user name and some user specific information in the actual > SunspotDemoPortal session. > Our question is because the default session attributes (and their > values) aren't particularly speeky. > > How can we trigger the portal to add the user name and other specific > information (like boolean flags) into the session? > Or are there already some user informations in the session, inserted by > the portal? > > And if so, how are they named / how can we get them out? >
Everything is already in the session, stored in a so called SessionContext named "sunRise". The "authentication document" defined for the portal which actually does the login of a user delivers these information to sunRise which then stores them into the session. These information are usually the user ID, the first name, the last name etc. By adopting this resource, you can store more infos in the session. You can get them in an XML processing pipeline by using the sunShine transformer. So you can write an XML file, like this: <doc xmlns:sunshine="http://cocoon.apache.org/sunshine/1.0";> <sunshine:getxml context="sunRise" path="/"/> </doc> If you now build a sunLet reading this XML document and using the sunShine transformer, you will get all information stored in the session about the current user. As the info is stored as an XML tree in the session by varying the "path" attribute of "getxml" you can get one specific info, like: <sunshine:getxml context="sunRise" path="/authentication/ID"/> HTH Carsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
