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The Session that I set in the valve is the same or can be shared with the portletSession with ApplicationScope?
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>The problem that I have is that I want  to display some content.in the header layouts of my portal page.according the usergroup.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>This is the following snippet:</p><p><br/>    public void invoke(Request request, Response response) throws IOException, ServletException {</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>        if (productCodes != null) { <br/>               if(authenticateProducts(request, response, productCodes)) {</p><p>                  String locationId = authHelper.obtainAuthorizedLocationId(request, productCodes);</p><p>                  <strong>getUserPreferences(Request request, String locationId)</strong><br/>               }   <br/>        } <br/>    }</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>     public Map<String, Object> getUserPreferences(Request request, String locationId) {<br/>        Session session = request.getSessionInternal(true);<br/>         Map<String, Object> preferences = (Map<String, Object>)  session.getSession().getAttribute(USER_GROUP_PREFERENCES);<br/>        if (preferences == null || preferences.isEmpty()) {<br/>            preferences = retrieveUserGroupPreferences(locationId);<br/>            session.getSession().setAttribute(USER_GROUP_PREFERENCES, preferences);<br/>        }<br/>        return preferences;<br/>    }</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I tried to get the preferences from the map in a portlet as follows:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>     Map<String, Object> preferences = (Map<String, Object>) portletSession.getAttribute(USER_GROUP_PREFERENCES,<br/>                PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>But I got preferences = null</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I  also tried a ServletFitler and I CAN share the HTTPSession with the  PortletSession,  but it seems that the layout is being executed before  the filter (which is very strange to me), so I found that the valve is  executed before anything but now that I can successfully invoke the  valve before the layout.jsp, I cannot access the attribute from the  portletsession, do you guys have any idea, I'm stuck!</p></div></div>
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