Question

I’ve a doubt about Spring session bean. Let me try to explain what I need and what I did. I need to store on a session variable (in that case a Bean) the user_id so, when I need to create some record on db I can keep track of who did what.

To do that, for first, I created a bean and, second, I modified my application context in that way:

<bean id="UserInfo" class="net.agdev.session.UserInfo" scope="session">
    <aop:scoped-proxy/>
</bean>

I read that using this :

ContextLoader.getCurrentWebApplicationContext().getBean("UserInfo");

is ppossible to access to the bean, but it’s not yet clear how to fill that bean..

I tryed to read on Spring documentation how to initalize the bean and how to recall on my Class controller but I didn’t find anything.

Could you suggest where to find an example or a tutorial to do that?

many thanks!

Andrea

Answer 1

You mean how to get the user_id into the session bean? Depending on your application this should probably happen right after the user “logged in”. Meaning, if you for instance have a login webflow or controller, set the user_id in your session bean within that webflow or controller.

So if I understood your context correctly this has only very little to do with Spring itself and mostly with your application 🙂

If you want other aspects of your bean initialized for instance from operations on other services you could set an init-method on the bean definition as detailed here.