Re: takeValuesFromRequest() on session creation
Re: takeValuesFromRequest() on session creation
- Subject: Re: takeValuesFromRequest() on session creation
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:57:22 -0800
Coincidentally, I am writing the chapter on this right now :-)
http://www.wocode.com/
Don't use takeValues to do this. That is the wrong place for that logic.
Use the awake() method in Session and get the request from context().request()
Chuck
At 12:06 PM 22/01/2004 -0800, Mac Developer wrote:
>Hi Everybody,
>
>Happy new year and thanks for a great place to learn WO. I am new to
>WO (learning it for about 9 month now), and I am running into a
>problem. I've checked all the WO websites, documentation and books for
>about 2 days now. So here I am seeking help from all you WO gurus.
>
>In my app, I am using mostly DirectAction, but I also want to use
>sessions to store stuff for each user. What I am trying to accomplish
>is to read a cookie from the user's browser when a session is created
>(which is whenever a user hits any page of the site since each page
>refers to a session variable.)
>
>I first tried to add a takeValuesFromRequest() in my Session.java file.
> But it seems like the takeValuesFromRequest() doesn't get called when
>the page is using directActionRequestHandler. Then I added the
>takeValuesFromRequest() in Application.java which didn't get called
>either. I also tried adding it to individual page and that didn't help
>either. But if I add a form and click on the submit button, then the
>takeValuesFromRequest() gets called.
>
>So am I doing something wrong that the takeValuesFromRequest() is not
>getting called in each Request-Response loop? Specifically, how does
>one go about reading cookie from the browser when the user first hit
>the app? I know this can be done since every time I visit the Apple
>store, it knows my name already without me filling out a form or
>hitting any submit button.
>
>Any hint or pointer is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>
>Nick Yang
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