access to outer request/session from within portlet

[radzish]

Hi All!

Are there any utility API to access outer request and/or outer session from within portlet ?
thanks in advance.

[radzish]

I still do not know whether there are any API to get outer request, but I have found the way how to do that. Here it is:

public static final HttpServletRequest getOuterRequest(JBossRenderRequest request) {
 PortletInvocation portletInvocation = (PortletInvocation) request
 .getAttribute(ContextDispatcherInterceptor.REQ_ATT_COMPONENT_INVOCATION);
 return portletInvocation.getDispatchedRequest();
}

[antoine_h]

hello,

this get the dispatched request, which seem not be usefull in my case (retrieve the session for setting a whole portal session parameter, that is the locale for all the portlet).

I did this, through the PortletRequest, PortletInvocation and AbstractInvocationContext class.

Not sure it is full correct, but it works. If someone has an comment on this ?
may be another way to get the http session ?

private static final Logger log = Logger
 .getLogger(MyClass.class);

 public static final HttpServletRequest getOuterRequest(
 PortletRequest request) {
 PortletInvocation portletInvocation = (PortletInvocation) request
 .getAttribute(ContextDispatcherInterceptor.REQ_ATT_COMPONENT_INVOCATION);
 // return portletInvocation.getDispatchedRequest();

 // Get the context of the invocation
 InvocationContext invocationContext = portletInvocation.getContext();

 // Try to cast the context of invocation to an AbstractInvocationContext
 AbstractInvocationContext abstractInvCtxt = null;
 if (invocationContext != null) {
 if (invocationContext instanceof AbstractInvocationContext) {
 abstractInvCtxt = (AbstractInvocationContext) invocationContext;
 } else {
 log
 .warn("The InvocationContext is not of instance of AbstractInvocationContext !");
 log.warn("The InvocationContext is : " + invocationContext
 + " // " + invocationContext.getClass().getName()
 + " // " + invocationContext.toString());
 }

 } else {
 log.warn("The invocationContext is null !");
 }
 HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest = null;
 if (abstractInvCtxt != null) {
 // The AbstractInvocationContext exists : try to retrieve the client
 // httpServletRequest.
 httpServletRequest = abstractInvCtxt.getClientRequest();
 if (httpServletRequest == null) {
 log.warn("The HttpServletRequest is null !");
 }
 } else {
 log.warn("The AbstractInvocationContext is null !");
 }
 return httpServletRequest;
 }

[theute]

If you are just trying to access the HTTP Session of the Web archive containing your portlet you can use the APPLICATION_SCOPE when you set and get an attribute.

What are you trying to achieve exactly ?

[antoine_h]

About the session : store the locale in the session, for easy access in other places than the portlet.
- from the login.jsp, to have a i18n login page
- in other jsp or jsf pages

or to have the current choosen localed store somewhere global, if the user does not allow the cookie.

I have not used it really yet, but when storing the locale in a cookie, i anticipated this and store it also in the session.
for the login.jsp, I will soon...

About the HttpServletRequest and Response :
- for the session
- for setting and retrieving a cookie.

cookie to store the locale, from one visit to another.

I am not keen on using this, as it is not JSR-168 compliant, but... is there a compliant way ?
(working on two portal projects, different companies, both need i18n... and locale stored between two visits).

may be with a servlet wrapper and playing with a parameter to trigger the work ?
or with an interceptor on the portlets or the portal container ?