How do I get the sessionKey from a Splunk app's serverside python code?

[robertlight]

I have created a Splunk app and am sending ajax request to it from the browser.

The serverside python code will then make REST calls to Splunk.

I need access to the logged-in user's sessionKey to make my REST calls to Splunk.

How do I get it?

(I am actually asking this rhetorically since I know how to do it... but couldn't find the answer here)

[michelecappelle]

Just use the service object, getting it from the http request

// your http/ ajax controller

def home(request):
service = request.service
savedsearches = service.saved_searches

[robertlight]

My ajax controller looks like:

    @expose_page(must_login=True, trim_spaces=True, methods=['GET'])
    def getCurrent(self, **params):

where params is a dict {'type':'alert',.... }

I can't seem to get access to the request

[robertlight · Accepted solution]

import cherrypy

sessionKey = cherrypy.session['sessionKey']

[TonyLeeVT]

I downvoted this post because this did not seem to work for me. i have the following error:
attributeerror: 'module' object has no attribute 'session'

do you have a move complete answer?

[eirik_talberg]

I may have missed something, but this does not work with Django Bindings apps.

File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/myapp/django/myapp/views.py", line 158, in privat
    session_key = cherrypy.session["sessionKey"]
  File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy/__init__.py", line 322, in __getitem__
    child = getattr(serving, self.__attrname__)
AttributeError: '_Serving' object has no attribute 'session'

[michelecappelle]

this stuff really doesn't work

[eirik_talberg]

It's a lot easier to just use request.service if you want to use REST.

[robertlight]

Question: is there an official splunk API call that I can use that will shield me from using cherrypy internals to get this information out of the request?