Skip to Main Content
Jakarta Struts Cookbook
book

Jakarta Struts Cookbook

by Bill Siggelkow
February 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 53m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Jakarta Struts Cookbook

11.5. Implementing "Remember Me" Logins

Problem

You want to provide a "remember me" feature so a user's username and password are prefilled on the logon form if that user has logged on before.

Solution

In your Action that logs a user in, create persistent cookies containing the user's base-64 encoded username and password. The private saveCookies( ) and removeCookies( ) methods shown in Example 11-8 manipulate the cookies as needed.

Example 11-8. An Action that stores or removes cookies

package com.oreilly.strutsckbk.ch11; import javax.servlet.http.Cookie; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession; import org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils; import org.apache.struts.action.Action; import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors; import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm; import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward; import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping; import com.oreilly.servlet.Base64Encoder; public final class MyLogonAction extends Action { public ActionForward execute( ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { HttpSession session = request.getSession( ); ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors( ); String username = (String) PropertyUtils.getSimpleProperty(form, "username"); String password = (String) PropertyUtils.getSimpleProperty(form, "password"); boolean rememberMe = ((Boolean) PropertyUtils.getSimpleProperty( ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Programming Jakarta Struts

Programming Jakarta Struts

Chuck Cavaness
Beginning Spring Framework 2

Beginning Spring Framework 2

Bruce Snyder, Sing Li, Anne Horton, Thomas Van de Velde, Naveen Balani, Christian Dupuis
Java Cookbook

Java Cookbook

Ian F. Darwin
Struts 2 in Action

Struts 2 in Action

J. Scott Stanlick, Chad Michael Davis, Donald J. Brown

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 059600771XSupplemental ContentErrata Page