I opened a ticket (#406) in response to this and attached a modified version of the hello world archetype.
https://liftweb.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/tickets/406-create-init-a-liftsession-from-outside-a-lift-handled-request Just let me know if anything is unclear! dave On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:30 AM, David Pollak <[email protected] > wrote: > Do you want to create/access a LiftSession from outside a Lift-handed > request, but make sure the same LiftSession is available when you access the > Lift parts of your app? (sorry, I want to make sure I understand the > problem) > > Right now, there's no good way to do that... sorry :-( > > Feel encouraged to open a ticket on it at > https://liftweb.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/tickets It'd be ideal if you > could include a test application so we could verify it was doing the right > thing. > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:04 PM, David Dearing <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm new to Lift and am trying to use Lift within a subpath of my web >> application. For example, http://domain.com is an existing webapp, >> but my LiftFilter handles the "user_mgt" subpath (http://domain.com/ >> user_mgt/* <http://domain.com/%0Auser_mgt/*>). My existing webapp >> already handles user authentication, >> but I want to use the lost/change password functionality of Lift's >> MegaProtoUser. >> >> How do I create a LiftSession from my existing webapp so that I can >> call User.logUserIn(my_user)? >> >> I am embedding my User.logUserIn call within S.initIfUninitted like >> this: >> S.initIfUninitted(my_lift_session.openOr(** SOMETHING? **)) >> { >> User.logUserIn(user) >> } >> >> If a LiftSession exists, I can retrieve it and it works fine: >> val my_lift_session = SessionMaster.getSession(current_session_id, >> Empty) >> >> However, when my_lift_session is Empty, I have tried: >> LiftRules.sessionCreator(new >> provider.servlet.HTTPServletSession(current_session), "")) >> >> which appears to create a new LiftSession, but when I actually >> navigate to a page in the subpath >> http://domain.com/user_mgt/change_password >> it doesn't recognize that I've logged in. Perhaps when I load the >> page http://domain.com/user_mgt/change_password it is creating a new >> LiftSession even though one already exists? >> >> I've been banging my head on this for a while. >> Any help would be greatly appreciated! >> dave >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Lift" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<liftweb%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Surf the harmonics > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<liftweb%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
