Hi,
My application is running on weblogic server 1 0.3.4 and iam using
jsf 2.0.
I have a requirement where in I have to implement a technique to validate the user before he starts accessing the application. Also, I need to check if a valid user has logged in whenever he accesses any page in the application. If the user has not logged in, then I should redirect the user to the login screen.
So I am using a Login Authentication filter to do this. I have placed the login related xhtml files in a folder /login/. Once the user is authenticated, then he is directed to application pages which are placed under /pages/... folder.
My filter mapping is given below:
<filter>
<filter-name>LoginFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.validate.LoginFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LoginFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>faces/pages/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
Scenario 1:
When the user access the login page directly from the browser, the login.xhtml page loads correctly. On click of login button in login.xhtml, the user is authenticated and transfered to application specific pages under /pages/welcomeuser.xhmtl. The filter is not invoked on click of login button in login.xhtml at this point in time, because the mapped url for filter is faces/pages/*. This scenario works fine.
Scenario 2:
Let's assume the user directly types the URL
http://localhost:8020/pages/welcomeuser.xhtml. the expected behaviour should that the user should redirected to /login.login.xhtml page as the user is not validated yet.
In this case, the doFilter () method in LoginFilter is invoked. Inside this method, I am checking if the user object exists or not. If not exists, then I am redirecting the user to /login/login.xhtml. What happens now is, since I am doing a redirect to a page whose URL
pattern matches with URL pattern of filter, it calls the doFilter() again and again and this goes into a indefinite loop.
Please let me know how to overcome this.
The do filter method is given below:
<code>
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,FilterChain filterChain) throws IOException,ServletException {
HttpServletResponse httpServeltResponse = (HttpServletResponse) response;
String email = session.setAttribute("loginuseremail");
if(email == null)
{
httpServeltResponse.sendRedirect(policyURL);
}
else
{
try {
chain.doFilter(request, response);
} catch (Throwable t) {
t.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
</code>
Thanks.