Is there any possible way to switch SYSTEM session to another regular user's session in a ProgramStart execution?

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In our project, we use ProgramStart to implement cron jobs. The executions will always be carried on by the SYSTEM user using only one ISession(id = 0).

The problem is, we heavily store plenty of Context Information (authentication token, user-session-specific data, etc) into ISession.setAttribute(). It works well on normal situation with logged-in Ivy user. However, because in background jobs, there is only one session, each execution will interfere with each others, trying to set and get the Context Information.

In addition, this happens the same with Signals since execution of those also delegated to SYSTEM.

I've tried to call ivy.session.login() but it threw exception since Axon.ivy refuse to allow logging out of SYSTEM user.

My question is: Is there any possible way to switch from SYSTEM sessions to regular normal user's session?

Thanks

Accepted Answer

In a ProgramStart you can program which Session should be used to execute the process in the EventBean. The method fireProcessStartEventRequest of the IProcessStartEventBeanRuntime interface takes as first parameter an ISession. The process will be executed in the context of this session. Most EventBean implementors simply give a null value for this Session. In this case the process is executed in the context of the SYSTEM session. To use another session do as follows:

ISession session = runtime.createSession();
try
{
  runtime.fireProcessStartEventRequest(session, ...);
}
finally
{
  runtime.destroySession(session);
}

The method createSession will create an annonymous session. There is also another createSession method that takes two arguments so that you can specify a user and password to create a session with a user. Don't forget to destroy the session otherwise you have a session leak.

For Signals there is no such solution available yet.

Is there any possible way to switch SYSTEM session to another regular user's session in a ProgramStart execution?

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