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HTTP Session

The document describes how to use HttpSession to manage user sessions in Java servlets. It explains how to get and set attributes in the session object and provides an example login application that stores user credentials in the session.

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HTTP Session

The document describes how to use HttpSession to manage user sessions in Java servlets. It explains how to get and set attributes in the session object and provides an example login application that stores user credentials in the session.

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HttpSession:

HttpSession is an interface that provides a way to identify a user in multiple page requests. A
unique session id is given to the user when first request comes. This id is stored in a request
parameter or in a cookie.

How to get session object?


HttpServletRequest interface’s getSession() method is used to get the session object.

Syntax:

HttpSession session = request.getSession();

How to set attribute in session object?


HttpSession interface’s setAttribute() method is used to set attribute in session object.

Syntax:

public void setAttribute(String name,Object value);

How to get attribute from session object?


HttpSession interface’s getAttribute() method is used to get attribute from session object.

Syntax:

public Object getAttribute(String name);

Session management example using HttpSession:


LoginServlet.java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

/**
* This class is used to set values in session.
* @author w3spoint
*/
public class LoginServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

//no-argument constructor
public LoginServlet() {

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,


HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

//get parameters from request object.


String userName = request.getParameter("userName").trim();
String password = request.getParameter("password").trim();

//check for null and empty values.


if(userName == null || userName.equals("") ||
password == null || password.equals("")){
out.print("Please enter both username " +
"and password. <br/><br/>");
RequestDispatcher requestDispatcher =
request.getRequestDispatcher("/login.html");
requestDispatcher.include(request, response);
}//Check for valid username and password.
else if(userName.equals("asfa") && password.equals("123")){
HttpSession session=request.getSession();
session.setAttribute("userName",userName);
session.setAttribute("password",password);
out.println("Logged in successfully.<br/>");
out.println("Click on the below link to see " +
"the values of Username and Password.<br/>");
out.println("<a href='DisplaySessionValueServlet'>" +
"Click here</a>");
out.close();
}else{
out.print("Wrong username or password. <br/><br/>");
RequestDispatcher requestDispatcher =
request.getRequestDispatcher("/login.html");
requestDispatcher.include(request, response);
}
}
}

DisplaySessionValueServlet.java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
/**
* This class is used to get values from session.
* @author w3spoint
*/
public class DisplaySessionValueServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

//no-argument constructor
public DisplaySessionValueServlet() {

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,


HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

//get parameters from session object.


HttpSession session=request.getSession(false);
String userName =(String)session.getAttribute("userName");
String password =(String)session.getAttribute("password");

out.println("Username: " + userName + "<br/><br/>");


out.println("Password: " + password);

out.close();
}
}

login.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01


Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Login</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="LoginServlet" method="post">
Username:<input type="text" name="userName"/>
<br/><br/>
Password:<input type="password" name="password"/>
<br/><br/>
<input type="submit" value="login"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>


<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

<servlet>
<servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
LoginServlet
</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/LoginServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet>
<servlet-name>DisplaySessionValueServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
DisplaySessionValueServlet
</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>DisplaySessionValueServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/DisplaySessionValueServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>login.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

</web-app>

Session management example using HttpSession:


Enter username: jai and password: 1234

Click on login button.


Click on the link.

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