I need to share data between components in different applications. I thought about using a session, but i haven’t found any documentation about sessions in javascript, and I’ve only found this class SimpleSession in the Javadoc by googling (which i dont know how i would go about implementing).
Is there any clever way of sharing data between components/applications scoped to session and/or user?
You can get content from other apps. For example, with a ContentSelector, you use something like <allowType>com.other.app:TheirType</allowType> and it’s the same with contentLib.query({...}) for getting content of a type from another app. Ideally apps would be loosely coupled and independent, but there are always special cases.
In this spesific case i was looking into making a paymentapp with a part that rendered a card detail form.
The payment module only cares about what amount it should charge, and a description of whats being charged.
To make it completly decoupled, and allow it to be integrated into anything (donation pages/webstores/one click buy++), i would like to retrieve this data in the component controller backend.
I found a workaround using a simple content-type (which can be extended), but it forces a contenttype that might not fit everyone, and intergration into already existing pages requires bigger changes. Thats why i wondered about storing it in a session, but couldn’t find a way of doing this.
I suppose you could add a service that provides what you need to whatever site you add the payment app to. Then you could access the service in the payment app part with the http-client library. That way at least the payment app would be modular and could added to any site without modification. But any site it’s added to would need the service.
I have a service to process the payment, which is being called from the card details form.
If i am to use this service to get details (amount/description) about the purchase as well, i would need to call it backend from another part. They cant be send frontend due to the obvious reason that the client can set its own amount. I also dont want the user to implement the card detail form themselves, since it processes the details and sends a token+++, it wouldn’t be very much of a plug and play app.
So, if i call this service from another parts controller, how would i store it waiting for the next call (with card details) and how would i make sure its the same session sending in the purchase details and then card details?