Session Management
Items that need to be stored for session management
Key |
Description |
Type |
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necessary to identify a specific user and allow that user access to X-Server services |
long, alpha-numeric String |
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identifies a result set created by submitting a query with the /wiki/spaces/SLIB/pages/2921168923 command. This number is necessary for asynchronous searches, retrieving results and pagination |
short, numeric String |
|
the number of records found (can be very large) |
int |
|
the number of records fetched |
int |
|
the AssetIterator (and contained Assets) associated with this search |
Issues
- How do we know when a user's session is done? This is up to the consumer. In our case (using Servlets), we can choose when to invalidate a session: a timeout & when the search dialog is closed.
- Will the metasearch engine support multiple users logged on at once? Yes.