Getting CSClient object

Mohamed

Hello,
The example programs inside customer_samples_src folder
(i.e com.corp.custom.CurrentUserServlet.java) has the following code snippet to get the CSClient object.

// get the cs client
CSClient client = (CSClient)request.getAttribute( "iw.csclient");

But I am always getting null in my CGI task. I am not sure why ?

Also there are several ways to get the CSClient object ? When can I use a particular approach among many ? In other words, I can get the CSClient object using the request.getAttribute (ofcourse it is not working for me ), I can get the CSClient object using the CSFactory class, I can get the CSClient object using CSFactory and the session parameter passed in the Servlet Request object... etc.

So basically I have two questions.

1) Why I am getting null when I try to construct the CSClient object using the requet.getAttribute("iw.csclient") ?

2) Which approach is better to construct the CSClient object considering many ways to construct the CSClient object.

Thanks & Regards,
Mohamed

vpatel

If this CSClient client = (CSClient) request.getAttribute("iw.csclient"); is consistently NOT working for you then perhaps there is something wrong with your TS/CSSDK instance. Did you install everything properly without any error? This has always worked for me.

Alternatively, you can use CSLocalFactory to get a client. You can probably get it based on the session Id or a specific username (i.e. trusted client).