I have a simple, short question but not found the answer anywhere. I created an HttpSession and want to get an attribute from it, for example a User object.
HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
Object userObject = session.getAttribute("name");
if ((userObject != null) && (userObject instanceof User)) {
User currentUser = (User) userObject;
...
}
The question is the following: .getAttribute function gets a String name as parameter - what is the name? From where do I know the name? Is it predefined somewhere? - then where to define another one?
Thank you!
Usually, you add attributes to the session yourself like so:
User someObject = new User();
session.setAttribute("pickaName", someObject);
Then you can get the session and pull off this attribute using that same name you used earlier like so:
User sameObject = (User) session.getAttribute("pickaName");
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