Access PortletSession inside of DWR

[Shannon Sims]

Hello and thank you for reading my post! I've googled this issue and have tried everything (so it seems) with no luck.

How can I access the PortletSession inside my DWR class? I need to be able to store session values so that my DWR classes can access these values.

Here's what I did inside my "render mapping" controller class, I am setting a value, like so:

   PortletSession session = renderRequest.getPortletSession();
   String dogName = "Fido";
   session.setAttribute( "dogName", dogName, PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE );
 

Several portlet's later...inside my DWR class, I am trying to access the dogName like so:

   if( httpServletRequest != null )
   {
      String myDogName = (String) httpServletRequest.getSession(false).getAttribute( "dogName" );
      log.info( "here...my dog's name is  - " + myDogName );
   }

Thanks so much for reading my post!!!