How do I get a hold of the session object in my form handler?

Question

I have build a form in D8 and on submit I want to save the form values into a session, so that I can access them 3, 4,.... page requests later. In D7 I just used

$_SESSION['key'] = $value

I have a feeling, in D8 and symfony, this is (very) bad practice. How should I solve this? At the moment I'm using the following chunk of code, but I don't know if this is the correct way:

$session = new Session();
$session->set('name', 'value');

$name = $session->get('name');

Answer 1

The conversion to the Symfony session component is not yet complete, therefore you still have to access the session using the superglobal.

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