Adam, What would you do if someone suspended this user while he was logged in?
-Joe > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 6:12 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Frequently Performed Action Tasks > > > Hey Joe, > why don't you put the whole user bean in the session? I do. > It's not so > big that it causes problems under heavy load. > > You could then have a simple checkUser() in your base class > that checks > if the session bean is there before calling getUser(). > > I actually have my checkUser() in a filter. Several of my universal > methods (like this) are in filters, and several are in the base class. > > Adam > > On 04/04/2004 11:06 AM Joe Hertz wrote: > > I'm considering doing something, and I'm trying to decide > if it's safe > > to do. > > I'm sure this particular battle has been fought before. I'm > curious what the > > results are from those who have waged it. > > > > A typical case: At the beginning of your action, you want > to get the > > current > > user's record from the database. Say the user id itself is > stored in the > > httpSession. > > > > In fact, so typical is this case, it would make sense to have this > > always > > happen at the beginning of the Action. > > > > My first instinct was to declare an execute() method in my > base Action > > class, > > get the current user's User object based upon the user id, > and then do a > > super.execute(). > > > > Problem is, there's no way to pass in the user object I got got into > > super.execute. > > > > So my options appear to be either 1) Call getUser() at the > beginning > > of every > > Action method, or 2) In the base class' execute() method, > call getUser() and > > store the User object in a static ThreadLocal like one of > the example > > Hibernate plugins does with the Hibernate Session object. > > > > Is there any good reason not to do the latter (like, fer instance, > > "Um, it > > won't work, Joe")??? > > > > Anyway, it just seems like the base class' execute() method > would be a > > good > > place to call pre-"guts" and post-"guts" Action code. Is > this the way to go > > about it, or is there a better one? > > > > TIA, > > > > -Joe > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > struts 1.2 + tomcat 5.0.19 + java 1.4.2 > Linux 2.4.20 Debian > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
