Hi Naveen,

As you found in the documentation, when using Container Managed Authentication the pxRequestor.pxHTTPServletRequest is not populated at the time when the EstablishOperator activity is run. So you will not be able to get the cookies using this authentication type.

Why?

The HttpServletRequest object is not serializable so we can't pass it from the PRPC web tier to the PRPC ETier were activity processing is run. When using PRCustom style authentication with a Data-Admin-AuthService we use a facade object, com.pega.pegarules.priv.authentication.RequestFacade, to populate pxRequestor.pxHttpServeltRequest property.  The RequestFacade object implements the same methods as the standard HttpServletRequest except for some methods are not available:

getSession()

getSession(boolean)

isUserInRole()

getAttribute(String)

getAttributeNames()

getRealPath()

getRequestDispatcher()

removeAttribute()

setAttribute()

setCharaterEncoding()

These are coded methods but return a RuntimeExceptions with an error message like "...Not available in ETier".

Using PRCustom with Container Managed Authentication:

You can switch to use a PRCustom style SSO implementation and still use Container Managed Authentication. This way you will have more access to the data you need, the cookies etc.

Since you are using Container Managed Authentication you should be able to access the user name with the following Java code:

javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req = (javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest)tools.getRequestor().getRequestorPage().getObject("pxHTTPServletRequest");

String userName = req.getUserPricipal().getName();

or

String userName = req.getRemoteUser();

Note: This can be on a property set step as well but since you are trying to get cookies as well you should use a Java step.

To get cookie information: (I am sure you know this but just putting here for others)

String MyCookieValue = null;

Cookie[] cookies = req.getCookies();
if (cookies != null) {
    for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
      if (cookies[i].getName().equalsIgnoreCase(“[COOKIE_NAME]”)) {
          MyCookieValue = cookies[i].getValue();
          break;
      }    
    }
}

If you have problems switching to use PRCustom let me know. We can do a WebEx and I can help you through it.

Hi Naveen,

As you found in the documentation, when using Container Managed Authentication the pxRequestor.pxHTTPServletRequest is not populated at the time when the EstablishOperator activity is run. So you will not be able to get the cookies using this authentication type.

Why?

The HttpServletRequest object is not serializable so we can't pass it from the PRPC web tier to the PRPC ETier were activity processing is run. When using PRCustom style authentication with a Data-Admin-AuthService we use a facade object, com.pega.pegarules.priv.authentication.RequestFacade, to populate pxRequestor.pxHttpServeltRequest property.  The RequestFacade object implements the same methods as the standard HttpServletRequest except for some methods are not available:

getSession()

getSession(boolean)

isUserInRole()

getAttribute(String)

getAttributeNames()

getRealPath()

getRequestDispatcher()

removeAttribute()

setAttribute()

setCharaterEncoding()

These are coded methods but return a RuntimeExceptions with an error message like "...Not available in ETier".

Using PRCustom with Container Managed Authentication:

You can switch to use a PRCustom style SSO implementation and still use Container Managed Authentication. This way you will have more access to the data you need, the cookies etc.

Since you are using Container Managed Authentication you should be able to access the user name with the following Java code:

javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req = (javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest)tools.getRequestor().getRequestorPage().getObject("pxHTTPServletRequest");

String userName = req.getUserPricipal().getName();

or

String userName = req.getRemoteUser();

Note: This can be on a property set step as well but since you are trying to get cookies as well you should use a Java step.

To get cookie information: (I am sure you know this but just putting here for others)

String MyCookieValue = null;

Cookie[] cookies = req.getCookies();
if (cookies != null) {
    for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
      if (cookies[i].getName().equalsIgnoreCase(“[COOKIE_NAME]”)) {
          MyCookieValue = cookies[i].getValue();
          break;
      }    
    }
}

If you have problems switching to use PRCustom let me know. We can do a WebEx and I can help you through it.