[Seaside] Seaside 2.9 - how do I access session ivars? WARequestContextNotFound error

[Julian Fitzell]

Where do you set the user variable? The error is just indicating that
the instvar is nil (as Mariano indicates, the RequestContextNotFound
thing in this case is an unrelated problem with the debugger).

Julian

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Paul DeBruicker<pdebruic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
>
> I am in the initial stages of porting some code to Seaside2.9a3.  The
> code works in Seaside 2.8.4. When a user logs in I store their user
> info in the session in an instance variable called user.  In Seaside
> 2.8.4 calling 'self session user userId' would return the user's user
> id, after they'd logged in.  With whatever I've done + 2.9a3 calling:
>
>
> self session user userId
>
>
> inside a renderContentOn: method throws an error that says
> UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #userId.  In the debugger
> for that error if I try to explore 'self session' I get a
> WARequestContextNotFound error.  I do include
>
>
> webapp preferencesAt: #sessionClass add: AMSession.
>
>
> in the initialize statement for the application.  I'm willing to
> believe that my login function is also a little off because I set the
> session ivar 'user' with 'self session user: user'
>
> How do I store and access information in the session in Seaside 2.9?
> Is it the same as 2.8.4 and I've just got another error somewhere else
> thats just showing up here?  I'd appreciate any suggestions for
> remedying my lack of understanding.  Thanks
>
>
> Paul
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