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Arcturus
Arcturus

Reputation: 27055

Retrieving Session attributes in Velocity Template set in Liferay Portlets

In my Portlet I set some attributes in the session which I wish to use in the velocity template that Liferay uses.

I set the attributes on PortletSession as follows:

portletSession.setAttribute("key", "value", PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);

Now I wish to use these in my home.vm template of Liferay, but whatever I tried, nothing works:

$request.get("key") 
$request.getAttribute("key") 
$request.getSession().getAttribute("key")
$session.getAttribute("key")

I even put the key in the portal.properties:

session.shared.attributes=key

But that does not seem to work either. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2658

Answers (2)

Igor Baiborodine
Igor Baiborodine

Reputation: 430

It should be sufficient to add the "LIFERAY_SHARED_" prefix to your session attribute name since the session.shared.attributes property's value contains it by default.

Upvotes: 0

Arcturus
Arcturus

Reputation: 27055

Found the answer myself.

Apparantly I needed to set the private-session-attributes to false. I tried that before, but the DTD is very specific where it needs the tag.

After placing it at the right place, it worked.

Upvotes: 2

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