I am trying to implement a simple servlet which uses a HTTP session in
an embedded jetty (7.3.0 v20110203) container. To start jetty I use the following code:
Server server = new Server(12043);
ServletContextHandler handler = new
ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
handler.setContextPath("/");
server.setHandler(handler);
ServletHolder holder = new ServletHolder(new BaseServlet());
handler.addServlet(holder, "/*");
server.start();
server.join();
The servlet acquires a session with
HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
and stores some data in it. Upon the next request it gets the session
with the following code:
HttpSession session = request.getSession(false);
and there the session is always null.
I did not find any information on
the internet about this particular problem. I have also experimented
with setting a SessionManager or SessionIdManager, but that did not seem
to change anything. I suspect I am missing something about SessionManager or SessionIdManager or SessionHandler here, but this is just a wild guess.
Your code works fine with this skeletal implementation of BaseServlet:
public class BaseServlet extends HttpServlet {
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) {
boolean create = "true".equals(req.getParameter("create"));
HttpSession session = req.getSession(create);
if (create) {
session.setAttribute("created", new Date());
}
PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(resp.getOutputStream());
pw.println("Create = " + create);
if (session == null) {
pw.println("no session");
} else {
pw.println("Session = " + session.getId());
pw.println("Created = " + session.getAttribute("created"));
}
pw.flush();
}
so the session is probably being invalidated somewhere else in your code.
The SessionHandler
can also be explicity set using the setSessionHandler()
method of ServletContextHandler
.
//You need to setup SessionManager first. This worked for me.
Server server = new Server(8031);
ServletHandler handler = new ServletHandler();
server.setHandler(handler);
HashSessionIdManager hashSessionIdManager = new
HashSessionIdManager();
SessionHandler sessionHandler = new SessionHandler();
SessionManager sessionManager = new HashSessionManager();
sessionManager.setSessionIdManager(hashSessionIdManager);
sessionHandler.setSessionManager(sessionManager);
sessionHandler.setHandler(handler);
sessionHandler.setServer(server);
server.setSessionIdManager(hashSessionIdManager);
ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
context.setContextPath("/");
context.addServlet("webservlet.IndexServlet", "/index");
context.addServlet("webservlet.HomeServlet", "/home");
context.addServlet("webservlet.CategoryServlet", "/category");
context.addServlet("webservlet.ProductServlet", "/product");
...
The method HttpServletResponse#reset()
destroys a newly created session, so a new one is created the next time and so on.