Scott Yeadon wrote:
Hello,
Could someone tell me if it's possible to pass Java objects around as session information (for example an object containing information (or other objects) such as userid, timing, database connection, etc). From looking at the documentation everything looks like it must be converted to XML form. Can anyone point me to the releavnt areas of the documentation, as the session information only talks about XML or pointing to a Java class that reads data from db/file. It's unlikely Cocoon is any good to me if Java objects cannot be passed around between pages in the same way that JSP/Servlets can pass this information around in their request objects.
It seems you have looked at the "session framework", which is a convenience module allowing to manipulate session information as XML. Cocoon itself imposes absolutely no restriction on what can be stored as session attributes. You can get the request object using the ObjectModelHelper class (in Java) or "cocoon.request" (in flowscript) and from there on use the traditional servlet attribute methods.
Sylvain
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