Kevin,
can I ask you to open this as an issue? I don't want to do any changes
here without checking back with regards to RI compatibility...
If you open an issue, we will keep this in mind.
regards,
Martin
On 9/19/05, Kevin Roast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'll explain a little about why we need this.
>
> In our application, we have the concept of Users and Login/Logout - all
> pretty standard stuff.
>
> The app is a faces JSP web application. When the user logs out of the
> application, we want to invalidation or at least clear the session.
> Obviously because we are in a JSF app, we use an action event handler when
> the user clicks "logout". The example code we used with MyFaces 1.0.9 was:
>
> /**
> * Invalidate ticket and logout user
> */
> public String logout()
> {
> FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
>
> // clear Session for this user
> context.getExternalContext().getSessionMap().clear();
>
> // invalidate User ticket
> ...
>
> return "logout";
> }
>
> As you can see, we clear the session for the user.
>
> With MyFaces 1.1.0 you cannot call clear() as it throws
> UnsupportedOperationException.
>
> I tried this code instead:
>
> /**
> * Invalidate ticket and logout user
> */
> public String logout()
> {
> FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
>
> Map session = context.getExternalContext().getSessionMap();
> User user = (User)
> session.get(AuthenticationHelper.AUTHENTICATION_USER);
>
> // clear Session for this user
> Object extSession = context.getExternalContext().getSession(false);
> if (extSession instanceof HttpSession)
> {
> ((HttpSession)session).invalidate();
> }
>
> // invalidate User ticket
> ...
>
> return "logout";
> }
>
> But suprisingly this doesn't work either. Calling invalidate() throws a
> ClassCastException…
>
> Any ideas how we do this with the new MyFaces, or am I going to have to
> patch the source for our application?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
> --
> http://www.alfresco.org
>
>
> _____________________________________________
> From: Kevin Roast
> Sent: 19 September 2005 14:45
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: Another change since 1.0.9 - SessionMap.clear()
>
> Hi,
>
> Can I ask why
> org.apache.myfaces.context.servlet.SessionMap.clear() now
> throws UnsupportedOperationException?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
> --
> http://www.alfresco.org
>
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