Get the session key of the logged in user within a component / freemarker

kavithams

You can get it using the API

https://lithosphere.lithium.com/restapi/vc/authentication/sessions/login

Here is the related doc

https://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Developer-Documentation/bd-p/dev-doc-portal?section=sessionauth

Hi VikasB

Thanks for the reply. Yes I tried using that too. 

So when I make a rest call within a component and pass the logged in user's login as the query param, it throws error saying "cannot switch to yourself"

If I don't pass the user.login query param, it says authentication failed

How can I go about this?

kavithams

You do not need to pass the login details.  See here, it works fine in the component. 

https://prnt.sc/kg40yp

VikasB

Oh. I'm doing the exact same thing but getting an error. Please see below ( both with "?url" and without too )

https://prnt.sc/kg46hy

kavithams

If you are using SSO in community, you need to login first and then use the call: http://community_url.com/restapi/vc/authentication/sessions/current/id

If you're not using SSO on the community, you can login using: http://community_url.com/restapi/vc/authentication/sessions/login?user.login=username&user.password=password

Hi Parshant and VikasB

Okay, so I'm using the first call "/authentication/sessions/current/id" one and I get a token but that is not the same as the session Key looks like. 

For example : I got this as the output : 9EC147CAC5F9F2DDA2C21A7F6521D0FB and this is not the same as the session key functionally too.

Kindly advise how to go about ?