Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Zeller <>]

Right. I guess I was looking for a method like
GrouperSession.staticGrouperSession(Subject) which would return a
threadlocal session started by the given subject. A junit test wasn't
passing and I realized I started a threadlocal root session in the
test setup ... oops.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Chris Hyzer 
<>
 wrote:
> Well, the staticGrouperSession is not a traditional static, it's a 
> threadlocal.  So when your thread starts one, then anywhere in the thread 
> can use that with GrouperSession.staticGrouperSession()... we created that 
> so we don't have to pass it around or store it somewhere, so might as well 
> use it, right?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> 
>  
> [mailto:]
>  On Behalf Of Tom Zeller
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 5:42 PM
> To: Grouper Dev
> Subject: [grouper-dev] When to use GrouperSession.staticGrouperSession() ?
>
> Chris,
>
> Should the grouper DataConnectors for shibboleth use
> GrouperSession.staticGrouperSession() ? (No)
>
> Instead, they should call GrouperSession.start(Subject) and then store
> the GrouperSession as a class variable ? (Yes)
>
> It's OK for the stored GrouperSession class variable to be long-lived ? 
> (Yes)
>
> Or should I start a new session every time I query Grouper for data ? (No)
>
> I started using GrouperSession.staticGrouperSession(), but then
> realized that this would use any grouper session stored in the jvm,
> which wasn't what I wanted, since the subjectId used to start the
> session needs to be configurable.
>
> Thanks!
> TomZ
>