BBjHttpSession::getAttribute (Deprecated)

BBjHttpSession is deprecated for BBj 21.00 and higher, and has been replaced by BBxWebSession::getAttribute.

Description

In BBj 12.00 and higher, this method returns the specified attribute value from the BBjHttpSession object.

Syntax

Return Value

Method

string

getAttribute(string name)

Parameters

Parameter

Description

name

Specifies the name of the attribute.

Return Value

Returns a string.

Remarks

The example below shows getting the attribute ‘userID’ from the session within a BBjServlet.

Example

rem 'Obtain the instance of the BBjAPI object

let myAPI!=BBjAPI()
MyServlet! = new MyServlet()

data!.setCallback(data!.ON_WEB_CONNECTION, myServlet!, "myMethod")

process_events

class public MyServlet
    method public void myMethod(BBjServletEvent p_event!)
        let chan = UNT
        request! = p_event!.getHttpRequest()
        response! = p_event!.getHttpResponse()
        response!.setContentType("text/html")
        session! = request!.getSession()
        open(chan)"JSERVLET"
        print(chan)"<html><body><h1>Hello BBj!</h1>"
        print(chan)"User ID:"+ session!.getParameter("userID")
        print(chan)"</body></html>"
        close(chan)
    methodend
classend

See Also

BBjAPI

BBjServletEvent

BBjHttpRequest

BBjHttpSession

See the BBj Object Diagram for an illustration of the relationship between BBj Objects.