sessionService

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The Mashup is a learning tool that also serves as a bootstrap project for line-of-business applications.

The sessionService shares session information between modules.

Purpose

A great way to share information between modules, in Angular, is via services.

The sessionService provides, to modules, any information they need about the user, environment, and any other session specific data modules might need.

userSession

Exposed by the sessionService, the userSession holds whatever information is returned by the AuthN/AuthR system chosen. The expected properties are not defined but rather inherited by whatever system is providing AuthN/AuthR services.

var userSession = {};

When this user information is retrieved by the application, the setUserSession function is called.

The sessionService is not tasked with retrieving this information but only holding it for modules to consume.

envSession

Environment information is exposed by the sessionService via envSession.

Retrieving environment information doesn’t require external access to databases or WebApi(s) so the separation of responsibilities is not too badly abused when the sessionService retrieves environmental information on its own.

envSession is a good candidate for being modularized by a utlity_ module.

Some user/environment session properties include:

• browser: “Chrome 38.0.2125.101”
• deviceType: “desktop”
• osName: “Windows”
• battery level
• battery status
• userId: “user name”
• ADDomain
• AuthenticationType
• IsAnonymous
• IsAuthenticated
• Groups[]
• Roles[]
• Privileges[]
• ActiveStatus
• FirstName
• LastName
• FullName
• Email
• CreatedDateTime
• CreatedBy
• UpdatedDateTime
• UpdatedBy

More properties can be added as needed.