<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><api:function-page xml:base="/apidoc/8.0/xdmp.getSessionField.xml" generated="2015-10-07T16:36:00.016766-07:00" mode="javascript" xmlns:api="http://marklogic.com/rundmc/api"><api:function-name>xdmp.getSessionField</api:function-name><api:suggest>xdmp.getsessionfield</api:suggest><api:suggest>xdmp</api:suggest><api:suggest>getsessionfield</api:suggest><api:function-link mode="xquery" fullname="xdmp:get-session-field">/apidoc/8.0/xdmp:get-session-field.xml</api:function-link><api:function mode="javascript" name="getSessionField" type="builtin" lib="xdmp" category="AppServerBuiltins" hidden="false" bucket="MarkLogic Built-In Functions" prefix="xdmp" namespace="http://marklogic.com/xdmp" fullname="xdmp.getSessionField"><api:summary>
  Returns the value of a named session field from the session
  created by the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">xdmp:login</code> function.
</api:summary><api:params><api:param name="name" type="xs:string"><api:param-description>
    The name of the session field.
  </api:param-description><api:param-name>name</api:param-name><api:param-type>String</api:param-type></api:param><api:param name="default" type="item()*" optional="true"><api:param-description>
    A default value to return if there is no session field.
  </api:param-description><api:param-name>default</api:param-name><api:param-type>ValueIterator</api:param-type></api:param></api:params><api:return>ValueIterator</api:return><api:privilege>
  <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><code>http://marklogic.com/xdmp/privileges/xdmp-get-session-field</code></p>
</api:privilege><api:usage>
  You can use the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">xdmp:set-session-field</code> function to
  set a named value in a session and the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">xdmp:get-session-field-names</code>
  function to return the names of the fields in the session. 
</api:usage><api:example class="javascript"><pre xml:space="preserve" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
xdmp.getSessionField("user");
=&gt; "marklogic"
</pre></api:example></api:function></api:function-page>