Simple Session Question

[Sands Fish <sa...@MIT.EDU>]

Hello all,

I apologize for the remedial nature of this question, but I can't seem 
to dig up the answer.  I am using Cocoon to interface with an XML 
service (do a POST to the server and it returns an XML response). 

All I want to do is take a value from that XML response and set it as an 
HTTP session variable, but I have not been able to find a method to do 
this.  Do I have to make my own transformer to do this?  If so, that's 
fine, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. 

Thanks all!

 -sf

PS - The Cocoon docs boast many many components but is there a place 
that enumerates them all?

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Re: Simple Session Question

[Grzegorz Kossakowski <gr...@tuffmail.com>]

Sands Fish napisał(a):
> Hello all,
>
> I apologize for the remedial nature of this question, but I can't seem 
> to dig up the answer.  I am using Cocoon to interface with an XML 
> service (do a POST to the server and it returns an XML response).
> All I want to do is take a value from that XML response and set it as 
> an HTTP session variable, but I have not been able to find a method to 
> do this.  Do I have to make my own transformer to do this?  If so, 
> that's fine, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
> Thanks all!
>
Few questions:
1. How and where do you call the service?
2. Where XML data for POST comes from?
3. What do you want to do with response of service?

Modifying the session in the transformer is usually not a good idea. In 
general, I think transformer should only perform processing of xml 
stream without any side-effects.
>
> PS - The Cocoon docs boast many many components but is there a place 
> that enumerates them all?
Unfortunately, I don't think so. Most components are described in 
official docs, rest can be discovered by looking at api docs. Yes, we 
know that it is not perfect situation and some work on improving the 
situation is in progress.

-- 
Grzegorz Kossakowski

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