Question

I’m trying to get information from a cookie into Alfresco Share. I have a Filter setup where I can read the cookie, but I’m not sure how to pass that information onto an extension inside of Share or to a piece of code inside of Share that can do something with the information. Does anyone know how to get information from a Cookie into Alfresco Share?

Answer 1

In case someone else has this issue, here’s what I ended up doing:

1) Read the cookie from inside the filter.

2) Set a session variable:

HttpSession session = httpServletRequest.getSession();
session.setAttribute("myLastName", "value from cookie here");

3) Read the value from inside the extension:

String lastName = (String) RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes().getAttribute("myLastName", RequestAttributes.SCOPE_SESSION);

4) Added the following to Tomcat’s web.xml:

<listener>
    <description>Spring Framework Initilization</description>
    <listener-class>
        org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
    </listener-class>
</listener>

Also, it looks like I mis-spoke in my original question, as I the extension existed on the Alfresco layer rather than in the Share layer. However, I assume it’d be the same if your extension existed in the Share layer.