[jetty-users] Configuring Session Cache

[Glen Peterson <glen.k.peterson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for Jetty.  You all know I'm a fan.

I read this:

"In the absence of any explicit configuration, Jetty will instantiate an instance of the DefaultSessionCache per context."

https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/9.4.25.v20191220/session-configuration-sessioncache.html

But when I go to handle a request in an AbstractHandler implementation:

    override fun handle(

                        target: String,
                        baseRequest: Request,
                        request: HttpServletRequest,
                        response: HttpServletResponse

     ) {
         request.getSession(true)

I get an exception:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No SessionManager
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.getSession(Request.java:1605)

Does it actually need to be configured, or am I doing something else wrong?  Also, can it be configured in code (Java/Kotlin)?

This wasn't something I ever thought about with Tomcat.  Is this because I'm extending AbstractHandler instead of HttpServlet?

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Glen K. Peterson
(828) 393-0081