Showing posts with label session handling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label session handling. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

comment_icon 0 Handling Session in JSP

In this Tutorial we are going to see that how can we Handle SESSION in JSP.


1. Setting Session : 

Before we validate or check the existing session it is important to know that how we set session in JSP. 
we use session.setAttribute("ATTRIBUTE NAME","ATTRIBUTE VALUE"); you can set as many attribute as you want.

2. Retrieving valuse from session attribute

To retrieve value from session attribute we use  following method. session.getAttribute("attribute name");
to store the retrieved value in a variable we write code as shown below.
 data-type variable-name=(data type cast)session.getAttribute("attribute name");
e.g.  String  signin=(String)session.getAttribute("username");

3. Ending or Invalidating session.

To End the current session and all attributes value we use session.invalidate(); method.

4. To Prevent user from going back to the previous page after logout put following META-TAG in every page's Header

<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> 


working Example 

 1. index.jsp


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><%@page
 language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
 <html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> 
<title>index</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<% String  signin=(String)session.getAttribute("username");
 
 if(signin==null) { 
/** perform some your own logic for not signed in user , i'm just forwarding to login page
 **/
  %> <a href="login.jsp">click to login</a>
 <%
 }
 else {
 
 /** logic for logges in users **/
  %>

<h3>successfull login</h3>
  <a href="logout.jsp">click to logout</a>
  <%} %>
</body>
</html>

2. Login.jsp


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><%@page
 language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> 
<title>login</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<%
/** setting username here . you  will do it after processing login code **/
 session.setAttribute("username","your user's username");
 %>
 i set the session, now click on index page link to verify it
 <a href="index.jsp">go to index page</a>
</body>
</html>

3. Logout.jsp

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><%@page
 language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> 
<title>logout</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<% //session.setAttribute("username",null);
 session.invalidate();
 %> 
 <jsp:forward page="index.jsp"/>

</body>
</html>