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BBjHttpSession is deprecated for BBj 21.00 and higher, and has been replaced by BBxWebSession::getAttribute.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