Accessing JSF sesson bean from a servlet

[Dave Alvarado]

Hi,

I have this managed session bean defined in my faces-config.xml file:

<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>ConfigLoginBean</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.comcast.npsconfig.login.ConfigLoginBean</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>

How do I access this bean from my servlet? I've noticed invoking FacesContext.getInstances() returns null. This is what I currently have, which fails because of the NullPointerException.

private void doRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
HttpSession session = request.getSession(false);
...

// Get the config login bean.
FacesContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
Application app = ctx.getApplication();
ConfigLoginBean configLoginBean = (ConfigLoginBean)app.getVariableResolver().resolveVariable(ctx, "ConfigLoginBean");
configLoginBean.finishLogin(uc);
...
}

Thanks for your help, - Dave

[Venkat Sadasivam]

You can try below code
HttpSession session = request.getSession(false);
ConfigLoginBean configLoginBean = (ConfigLoginBean) session.getAttribute("ConfigLoginBean");

[Dave Alvarado]

Thanks. I tried this and even on JSF pages, this returns null. - Dave

[Andres Quinones]

I think that this can solve your problem.

And the answer to your last post is that the Servlet is out of the FacesContext so it will be always null and the JSF Beans will not be out of the FacesContext.
[ July 11, 2008: Message edited by: Andres Quinones ]

[Dave Alvarado]

That was it! Thanks for the help, - Dave