Add userinfo attributes to $currentSession

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Add userinfo attributes to $currentSession

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In order to have more control over (anonymous) users, the question arises to have some more userinfo. It would be nice to extend the session object to contain also:

IP address of user (e.g. '10.0.0.1')
User Agent of user (e.g. 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0')
Hostname of server used (e.g. 'myapp-accp.mendixcloud.com')
Environment of server (e.g. 'Acceptance')

The advantage is that in a microflow, these attributes are available via the $currentSession variable.

This enables for example to write audit logs with IP, collect statistics about user agents and distinguish multiple domain names.

asked 2016-10-13

Johan Flikweert

5 answers

Intern · Answer 1 · 2019-05-13

I have implemented the java action that Johan Flikweert created. But, while running my application locally, it returns the IP Address 127.0.0.1 which is the loopback address (also known as localhost).It’s different from my IPv4 Address. I used IPConfig to get my IP, & it was completely different.

Any ideas if I’m missing something?!

Robert van 't Hof · Answer 2 · 2018-06-26

I built the Http Commons Module as an easy way to access all these new fields in Java.

Johan Flikweert · Answer 3 · 2018-06-26

Yes, I've built a Java Action to retrieve the client's IP address (having input parameter: ISession):

// BEGIN USER CODE
IContext ctx = SessionParameter1.getContext();
Optional<IMxRuntimeRequest> orr = ctx.getRuntimeRequest();
String realIP = null;
if (orr.isPresent()) {
    IMxRuntimeRequest rr = orr.get();
    realIP = rr.getHeader("X-Real-IP");
    if( realIP == null )
        realIP = rr.getHeader("X-Forwarded-For");
    if( realIP == null )
        realIP = rr.getRemoteAddr();
}
return realIP;
// END USER CODE

Jonathan Foucheaux · Answer 4 · 2018-03-10

Has anyone built this Java action already and can share it?

Marnix Puijker · Answer 5 · 2016-10-26

I would like to add extra fields to that list detectable from the browser

Local Date/Time from the browser (useful for setting user account time-zone, so it is no longer required to set the "default" timezone)
Language / User Language (useful for setting user language, because currently anonymous users get the default system language)
Javascript enabled/disabled
Cookies enabled/disabled

For styling purposes:

Screen Dimensions
Browser Dimensions
Operating system
Images enabled/disabled