Is it possible to set up a Spring session with a bean tag with session attributes?

Question

I am trying to create a service bean that, when referenced, will be initialized with HttpSession based attributes.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that my webapp will do the following:

Establish a session
Request username and password
When a request is requested (this is scope = "session" and has init-method = "init ()"), a new instance is created for the session.

In the init method, can I refer to the HttpSession either by passing it as a parameter, and referring to it using EL?

Any ideas on this would be appreciated.

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Dave g 09 Apr 10 at 17:14

1 answer

axtavt · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-09T18:42:13+0000

You can access the thread related HttpSession

like this:

HttpSession session = 
    (HttpSession) RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes()
        .resolveReference(RequestAttributes.REFERENCE_SESSION);