Reading session variables from inside an Alfresco extension

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patorjk

I have a filter setup where I set a session variable like so:

HttpSession session = httpServletRequest.getSession();
session.setAttribute("myLastName", "some last name");‍‍

How would I access this value inside of an extension that I write? I tried:

String lastName = (String) RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes().getAttribute("myLastName", RequestAttributes.SCOPE_SESSION);‍

But I get the following error thrown when that line is executed:

No thread-bound request found: Are you referring to request attributes outside of an actual web request, or processing a request outside of the originally receiving thread? If you are actually operating within a web request and still receive this message, your code is probably running outside of DispatcherServlet/DispatcherPortlet: In this case, use RequestContextListener or RequestContextFilter to expose the current request.‍

Does anyone know how to access session variables created inside of filters?

thanks,

patorjk

It appears adding the following code to my web.xml file allows the code in my previous post to work:

<listener>
     <description>Spring Framework Initilization</description>
    <listener-class>
        org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
    </listener-class>
</listener>‍‍‍‍‍‍

I figured I'd post it in case anyone runs into the same issue.