[Zope] Help with accesssing session information

[Chris McDonough]

Karl,

Sadly there is no narrative documentation for the sessioning stuff other
than what is in the help system.

That said, if you download CoreSessionTracking from
http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/Products/CoreSessionTracking and read the
help/CoreSessionTracking.stx document that comes as part of the tarball
(*dont install the product*, just open that file in a text editor and read
it), it tells you about an *older* version of the sessioning stuff that is
close to (but not exactly like) the sessioning stuff in Zope 2.5.
Unfortunately it requires a bit of "translation" to be applicable to Zope
2.5's sessioning stuff.

We realize this is a bad situation; we're constrained by resources at the
moment to come up with better narrative docs.

- C


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Munroe" <mun_rok@yahoo.com>
To: "Mailing List" <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:10 AM
Subject: [Zope] Help with accesssing session information


> I need help with finding out how do I use sessions in zope
>
> from asp I can use the Session object to track a user with the SessionId
> identifying the users unique session on the server.
>
> I was looking at the API reference and came up with the fillowing :
>
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> *********************
> module SessionInterfaces
> Session API
> See Also
>
> Transient Object API
> class SessionDataManagerErr
> Error raised during some session data manager operations, as explained in
> the API documentation of the Session Data Manager.
>
> This exception may be caught in PythonScripts. A successful import of the
> exception for PythonScript use would need to be:
>
>          from Products.Sessions import SessionDataManagerErr
>
> class BrowserIdManagerInterface
> Zope Browser Id Manager interface.
>
> A Zope Browser Id Manager is responsible for assigning ids to site
visitors,
> and for servicing requests from Session Data Managers related to the
browser
> id.
>
> getBrowserId(self, create=1)
> If create=0, returns a the current browser id or None if there is no
browser
> id associated with the current request. If create=1, returns the current
> browser id or a newly-created browser id if there is no browser id
> associated with the current request. This method is useful in conjunction
> with getBrowserIdName if you wish to embed the browser-id-name/browser-id
> combination as a hidden value in a POST-based form. The browser id is
> opaque, has no business meaning, and its length, type, and composition are
> subject to change.
>
> Permission required: Access contents information
>
> Raises: BrowserIdManagerErr if ill-formed browser id is found in REQUEST.
>
> isBrowserIdFromCookie(self)
> Returns true if browser id comes from a cookie.
>
> Permission required: Access contents information
>
> Raises: BrowserIdManagerErr. If there is no current browser id.
>
> isBrowserIdNew(self)
> Returns true if browser id is new. A browser id is new when it is first
> created and the client has therefore not sent it back to the server in any
> request.
>
> Permission required: Access contents information
>
> Raises: BrowserIdManagerErr. If there is no current browser id.
>
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> **********************
>
> Where can I find more documentation? Is there anyway I can make use of
these
> modules and classes by calling them from dtml method or document? I can
> probably use these to simulate tracking by session, am I too wishful in my
> thinking? The problem is I do not want to install a product with user
> management such as Cookieuser folder.
>
> I am currently using zope 2.3.3.....wanted to wrk with this one, I am
going
> to upgrade soon.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Karl Munroe
> Email : mun_rok@yahoo.com, mun_rok@hotmail.com
> Tel: (876)3654340
>
>
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