get applicationContext at Business layer

[kv ruby]

I would like to get and set a session value that would be available through out the application.as request variables wouldnot be available in business layer would there be an option
to do this? something like getting webapplicationcontext and setting session values.

i know this is a dirty fix and session variables should not be passed beyond presentation layer but would still like to know a way to do this.

[Piyush Mangal]

You might set value in ThreadLocal and the get the same in business layer.

[Mark Spritzler]

Well, I get the web related data in my Controller and just pass them as parameters to my Service business layer classes.

Mark

[kv ruby]

Piyush Mangal wrote:You might set value in ThreadLocal and the get the same in business layer.

That seems to be a solution.Thankyou would investigate more about it.

[kv ruby]

Mark Spritzler wrote:Well, I get the web related data in my Controller and just pass them as parameters to my Service business layer classes.

Mark

Ideally this is the solution but that would introduce lot of code change in our case so trying a dirty fix.

[Mark Spritzler]

Yeah, something like ThreadLocal helps stop api changes. I used it to put my PageRequest object into ThreadLocal so I wasn't passing pagination information through my layers api parameters. Instead the Controller layer would create the PageRequest object and put it into ThreadLocal. Then all the way down in my Repository layer I get the PageRequest out of ThreadLocal so I can pass it to my query string. Well, I actually get it from ThreadLocal in my Service layer because I have no Repository code, just Repository interfaces because I am using Spring Data.

Mark