I want to be able to update my entities with the UserId of the person editing them via my web application. I have this information available in the Session, but it seems that I have no way to get this information to the code. What I DON'T want to do is set the value in each of the 500 places I call Save() on my entities.

I have implemented a Validator w/ Dependency Injection and it works great. I thought that I would be able to do it there, but something wierd is happening... In my Validator class, I have:

public delegate HttpSessionState GetWebSession_Delegate(); public static GetWebSession_Delegate GetWebSessionState = null;

and then in my Application_Start, I set the GetWebSessionState delegate function. But when the Validator is executing, it is null.

Any suggestions?

Could you plese post the code snippet where you set the delegate. Also the Validator's method where you are accessing it.

daelmo wrote:

Could you plese post the code snippet where you set the delegate. Also the Validator's method where you are accessing it.

The definition:

public class GeneralValidator : ValidatorBase
{
    public delegate HttpSessionState GetWebSession_Delegate();
    public static GetWebSession_Delegate GetWebSessionState = null;

Setting the delegate: (in my Web Global Application_Start)

GeneralValidator.GetWebSessionState = new GeneralValidator.GetWebSession_Delegate(this.GetSessionState);

Using it: (from inside my Validator)

if (GetWebSessionState != null)
{
    HttpSessionState Session = GetWebSessionState();
    q.CortexLastEditId = (int)Session["UserID"];
}

-mdb

and then in my Application_Start, I set the GetWebSessionState delegate function

Shouldn't this be set in Session Start?

Walaa wrote:

and then in my Application_Start, I set the GetWebSessionState delegate function

Shouldn't this be set in Session Start?

No... all I'm doing is setting up a static delegate. I only want to do this once when the app starts, not for every different session.

-mdb

I don't think your approach will work.

Who said that GetSessionState would fire (if it's an event), when a Validator is created and injected for an entity that's has just been created?

I think you should try to access the current session in the Validator using: System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session, don't forget to reference System.Web.dll