Glide session concept/api with some example of getClientData() and putClientData()

[jim38]

Hello Experts can you help me out on Glide session concept/api with some example of getClientData() and putClientData()?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

please check below links:

https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/api/orlando/server/no-namespace/c_GlideSessionSc...

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Ankur

[jim38]

Thanks for the response.

[Kunal Varkhede]

Hi,

The getClientData() and putClientData() methods allow you to set data in the user's session from a server-side script using putClientData(), and then retrieve that data using getClientData().

This functionality can be extremely useful for passing data back-and-forth between the server and client, without performance-costly synchronous queries or time-consuming Ajax calls.

Refer @Ankur Bawiskar provided link also as well as below docs

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/geneva-servicenow-platform/page/script/client_scripts/reference/r...

Thanks,

Kunal

[Ganesh Pardhe · Accepted solution]

Hello Jim,

In addition to Kunal I want to add more points like

The GlideSession class has no constructor, but it is returned from the getSession() method of the GlideSystem API (gs.getSession();).

This API allows you to get and set data related to the current session.

Example usage

In business rule on the Incident table, we can place some data in the user's client session like so:

var userSession = gs.getSession();
session.putClientData('ticket_number', current.getValue('number'));

And then in a client script, you can access this data like so:

var ticketNumber = g_user.getClientData('ticket_number');

PFB Link for more reference for Can I write to a session variable from within a scoped app?

https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=1df9cb29db5cdbc01dcaf3231f96...

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Ganesh