Get session using validate_answer?

[uhasd]

Hey all!
Is there a way to get the Controller's validate_answer function to return the ?session= value?
Like how the before_db function returns _session_id.

[ryanwesslen]

hi @uhasd!

It seems like your goal is to get the session_id within a recipe, right? Have you seen these posts?

get session id within a recipe

Hi! The session ID is only assigned when a user opens the app and makes a request to the server requesting a new batch of questions. There's not currently an in-recipe way to access it, because it's only available once the stream is already executing. So if you want fine-grained control like this within the recipe script, you'd currently have to use separate instances of Prodigy with different datasets, or the same dataset and sessions / annotator names / etc. set via the command line. This thre…

Setting session name as a config or CLI option

Ah, so if I understand the use case correctly, you want to attach additional meta info to the data you're annotating that's preserved when you merge datasets? Recipes support a get_session_id function that was initially added to override the default timestamp session IDs (e.g. if you're starting Prodigy instances programmatically and end up with multiple sessions per second). So in a custom recipe, you could add a command-line argument for the annotator name and then "get_session_id": lambda: …

Let me know if this answers your question.

[uhasd]

So the only way to go about this is to have separate instances?

[ryanwesslen]

Yes that's correct.