Need Suggestion on increasing Session ID/Job ID in CWS

John Thomas

I am using CWS to transfer data say more than 1 MB from one system to OpenText CS 10 U9. For which, i created WCF so that i can be called with few metadata updates.

 

After tracing the WCF code, got to know Session and Job ID is getting expired for which its throwing " HTTP Status code 400 'Bad Request'"

If you refer below link : https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/piroot/medmgt/v070201/medmgt-ain/en/html/uploadcontent-action.htm

Could you please assist me in setting the Session and Job ID active till it gets uploaded?

 

Dave_Kinchlea

Hi

   I'm not 100% sure I understand your use-case, but it sounds similar to mine. The DesktopLibrary CLI faced the same problem where a long script (say uploading 1000s of files) would find the session timeout. What I did was to prepend all CWS calls with an "updateauthenication()" function which would check the session expired timestamp against the current client time of day and reauthenticate if the session has expired or will expire within a few seconds (to allow for client and servers to have unsynchronized times). The follwoing powershell snippet is the main session authentication logic from updateauthentication():

 

    $LOCAL:now = Get-Date    if (! $SCRIPT:sessdate) {        try { $SCRIPT:sessdate = $SCRIPT:sotauth.getSessionExpirationDate() }        catch [system.exception] {            if ($($Error[0].Exception.Message) -inotmatch "Your session has timed-out") {                throw {"updateauthentication: Cannot determine session expiration time because "}            } else {                $SCRIPT:sessdate = $LOCAL:now.AddSeconds($SCRIPT:sessbuffsecs)            }        }    }    if ($SCRIPT:sessdate -and (($SCRIPT:sessdate.CompareTo(($LOCAL:now.AddSeconds($SCRIPT:sessbuffsecs)))) -le 0)) {        # session timeout, must reauthenticate and distribute the token        try { $LOCAL:authtoken = $SCRIPT:sotauth.authenticateuser($SCRIPT:username,$SCRIPT:password) }[...]

Hope this helps