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  • Russell Munro 6 posts 26 karma points
    May 08, 2014 @ 10:15
    Russell Munro
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    Session with UmbracoApiController?

    Using Umbraco 7

    I have implement an UmbracoApiController as described here  http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/WebApi/ and it works great. 

    I would now like to access HttpContext.Current.Session in the methods but it always returns null. is it possible to do so? If so how do you do it?

    Thanks!

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  • Jamie Pollock 174 posts 853 karma points c-trib
    May 08, 2014 @ 10:50
    Jamie Pollock
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    Hi Russell,
    I'm afraid I don't have experience with this personally. After a bit of a Google I found the following regarding general .net WebApi, which UmbracoApiController is based upon.

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11478244/asp-net-web-api-session-or-something

    It seems to suggest that accessing the HttpContext Session in what should be a "stateless" Api Controller isn't a desirable route (no pun intended ;)) to follow.

    You may find the solution works for you though.

    Thanks,
    Jamie

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  • Jeroen Breuer 4908 posts 12265 karma points MVP 4x admin c-trib
    May 08, 2014 @ 12:11
    Jeroen Breuer
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    Hello,

    It's not recommended to uses sessions with WebAPI because it's supposed to be stateless. Instead you could create a surface controller and communicate with that. Since it's a normal controller sessions are allowed.

    Jeroen 

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  • Russell Munro 6 posts 26 karma points
    May 29, 2014 @ 10:28
    Russell Munro
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    oh ok. well thanks for the response (and sorry for the sorry reply)

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