# \[2.0.0-M3a\] What happened to Session.getAttribute()?

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**Category:** Gatling (Open-Source)\
**Created:** [July 22, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/2-0-0-m3a-what-happened-to-session-getattribute/1200 "2014-07-22T15:43:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Alex](https://community.gatling.io/u/Alex)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/2-0-0-m3a-what-happened-to-session-getattribute/1200/1 "2014-07-22T15:43:48Z")

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Apologies if I’ve missed something obvious, but what’s happened to the `getAttribute` method of `Session` in Gatling 2.0? I can’t see it in the source, and I can’t call it in my Simulation. Have I missed something obvious? Or has it been renamed or removed?

Thanks for any pointers,

Alex

P.S. from code, these appear to the available methods:

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**Author:** ![Michelle\_Burrows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Michelle\_Burrows](https://community.gatling.io/u/Michelle_Burrows)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/2-0-0-m3a-what-happened-to-session-getattribute/1200/2 "2014-07-22T15:47:58Z")

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[https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/Gatling-2#session](https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/Gatling-2#session)

session(attributeName).as[AttributeType], e.g.: session(“username”).as[String]

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**Author:** ![Alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Alex](https://community.gatling.io/u/Alex)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/2-0-0-m3a-what-happened-to-session-getattribute/1200/3 "2014-07-22T15:59:08Z")

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Thanks, staring me in the face. Presumably a direct result of:

case class SessionAttribute(session: Session, key: String) {  
def as[T]: T = session.attributes(key).asInstanceOf[T]  
…  
case class Session(  
…  
def apply(name: String) = SessionAttribute(this, name)

Back to Scala-school for me, I think.