What does it mean to be "recognized"?

In the Session object returned by Livesite's context.getSession().isRecoginized().

Sounds like something fun, but all the javadocs say is "Gets if the user is recognized by the site associated with this session. True if the user is recognized, false otherwise."

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Garth McMillan

I don't know, but I'd guess it might be when the user is authenticated by LiveSite via the targetting module?

Rick Poulin

This is the same as isLoggedIn() in the BaseUserSession (ootb implementation). It's there in case you want to extend the object where your implementation would differentiate "recognized" from "logged in". This would be based on a specific use case and/or authentication provider.

E.g. consider the case where a user comes back a week later with a cookie that specifies its user name. You might consider that user to be 'recognized' for lower-security functions and only prompt for re-authentication on higher security functions such as editing profile information.