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King Penson II
King Penson II
16,413 Points
Posted by King Penson II
King Penson II
16,413 Points

How to call the Session id in express-session

Hello,

I'm having a hard time grasping the concept of express-session and session IDs. What I want to do is use the user's ID from the session ID to post to a mongoose schema model. So that every time a new object is made in MongoDB, it'll have an ID number to reference for search queries of the user that created the product:

var ProductSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  title: "Black Dress shoes",
  userID: "561FADSFQEFQF1961"
})

I tried setting the ID to a variable, but I can't call it to page to check if it's working, no luck:

var userId = req.sessionID;

1 Answer

Zachary Moorman
Zachary Moorman
1,395 Points
Zachary Moorman
Zachary Moorman
1,395 Points

Assuming you have express session set up correctly for your needs...

var session = req.session; // creates a new session

var sessionID = session.id // session is an object that has a property called 'id' with a unique session id in it