oracle.portal.provider.v2
Interface ProviderSession

All Known Implementing Classes:

ServletProviderSession

public interface ProviderSession

The Provider interfaces are specified without dependencies on the Servlet interfaces. ProviderSession provides the equivalent abstraction as a servlet's HttpSession. When running in the servlet container, the session state is maintained in the HttpSession object while the ProviderSession becomes a simple wrapper that isolates the abstraction from that particular interface.

Sessions, if used, must be established in Provider.initSession(). Sessions are maintained on a ProviderUser basis. The ProviderUser interface is used to create and reacquire the session. A convenience method for reacquiring the session is available to renderers in the PortletRenderRequest object.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	getAttribute(java.lang.String name) Returns the object bound with the specified name in this session, or null if no object is bound under the name.
java.util.Enumeration	getAttributeNames() Returns an Enumeration of String objects containing the names of all the objects bound to this session.
long	getCreationTime() Returns the time when this session was created, measured in milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970 GMT.
java.lang.String	getId() Returns a string containing the unique identifier assigned to this session.
long	getLastAccessedTime() Returns the last time the client sent a request associated with this session, as the number of milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970 GMT.
int	getMaxInactiveInterval() Returns the maximum time interval, in seconds, that the servlet engine will keep this session open between client requests.
void	invalidate() Invalidates this session and unbinds any objects bound to it.
boolean	isNew() Returns true if the client does not yet know about the session or if the client chooses not to join the session.
void	removeAttribute(java.lang.String name) Removes the object bound with the specified name from this session.
void	setAttribute(java.lang.String name, java.lang.Object value) Binds an object to this session, using the name specified.

Method Detail

getCreationTime

public long getCreationTime()

Returns the time when this session was created, measured in milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970 GMT.

Returns:

a long specifying when this session was created, expressed in milliseconds since 1/1/1970 GMT

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if this method is called on an invalidated session

getId

public java.lang.String getId()

Returns a string containing the unique identifier assigned to this session. The identifier is assigned by the servlet container and is implementation dependent.

Returns:

a string specifying the identifier assigned to this session

getLastAccessedTime

public long getLastAccessedTime()

Returns the last time the client sent a request associated with this session, as the number of milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970 GMT.

Actions that your application takes, such as getting or setting a value associated with the session, do not affect the access time.

Returns:

a long representing the last time the client sent a request associated with this session, expressed in milliseconds since 1/1/1970 GMT

getMaxInactiveInterval

public int getMaxInactiveInterval()

Returns the maximum time interval, in seconds, that the servlet engine will keep this session open between client requests. You can set the maximum time interval with the setMaxInactiveInterval method.

Returns:

an integer specifying the number of seconds this session remains open between client requests

getAttribute

public java.lang.Object getAttribute(java.lang.String name)

Returns the object bound with the specified name in this session, or null if no object is bound under the name.

Parameters:

name - a string specifying the name of the object

Returns:

the object with the specified name

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if this method is called on an invalidated session

getAttributeNames

public java.util.Enumeration getAttributeNames()

Returns an Enumeration of String objects containing the names of all the objects bound to this session.

Returns:

an Enumeration of String objects specifying the names of all the objects bound to this session

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if this method is called on an invalidated session

setAttribute

public void setAttribute(java.lang.String name,
                         java.lang.Object value)

Binds an object to this session, using the name specified. If an object of the same name is already bound to the session, the object is replaced.

After this method executes, and if the object implements HttpSessionBindingListener, the container calls HttpSessionBindingListener.valueBound.

Parameters:

name - the name to which the object is bound; cannot be null

value - the object to be bound; cannot be null

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if this method is called on an invalidated session

removeAttribute

public void removeAttribute(java.lang.String name)

Removes the object bound with the specified name from this session. If the session does not have an object bound with the specified name, this method does nothing.

After this method executes, and if the object implements HttpSessionBindingListener, the container calls HttpSessionBindingListener.valueUnbound.

Parameters:

name - the name of the object to remove from this session

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if this method is called on an invalidated session

invalidate

public void invalidate()

Invalidates this session and unbinds any objects bound to it.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if this method is called on an already invalidated session

isNew

public boolean isNew()

Returns true if the client does not yet know about the session or if the client chooses not to join the session. For example, if the server used only cookie-based sessions, and the client had disabled the use of cookies, then a session would be new on each request.

Returns:

true if the server has created a session, but the client has not yet joined

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if this method is called on an already invalidated session