Dealing with Timed out sessions...

[Tad Dicks]

Inside my default layout page I have the following tags:

<logic:empty name="user">
        <logic:forward name="TimedOut"/>
        <bean :mrgreen: efine scope="request" id = "info" value="timed out session"/>
    </logic:empty>

"user" is an attribute set in the session when a user logs in successfully.
When its not present the user's session is "invalid" or timed out.
the forward works in forwarding the page back to the login screen, but I also want to display a short message explaining that hte session has timed out. How can I do this? the above code isn't passing the info bean.

-Tad

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Tad,
When writing a bean, you need to use the "toScope" attribute instead of "scope." Also, you may need to set it in the session before forwarding.

[Tad Dicks]

I changed the scope attribute to toScope="session" and it still didn't work.

I'm thinking I can't be the first person to have tried to implement something that works this way. Is there a better approach? I really don't want to go through every single action class and add a new

 if(sessionTimedOut)
 {
   request.setAttribute("info", "session timed out");
   return(mapping.findForward("timedout"));
 }

It would be much nicer if I could just put the code inside the "master layout" tile..

-Tad

[P.K Gupta]

<logic forward.....>
takes u to the login page before executing
<bean efine scope="request" id = "info" value="timed out session"/>



So write it like this

<logic:empty name="user">
<bean efine scope="request" id = "info" value="timed out session"/>
<logic:forward name="TimedOut"/>
</logic:empty>

[Tad Dicks]

Thanks, don't know how I missed that sounds obvious.


-Tad