Have you considered using a servlet filter? You have have it check for
a session variable or cookie.
-R
On 7/31/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been looking for a solution that will allow me to check if a user
> has been logged in before I load a page. If the user is not logged in, or
> the session has timed out, I want to send the user to the login page. In
> my searching if found the jsf-comp onload project. From the outside this
> looks exactly like what I want; however, I have been having problems
> implementing it.
>
> I'm running JSF 1.2, Tomcat 6, and Apache Trinidad 1.2.8. I have created a
> onload-config.xml and installed the jsfNet 0.9.0 jar. I'm using the
> Trinidad XMLMenu for my menuing, and in the top menu the destination
> attribute is used instead of the action attribute.
>
> I get the following logs from OnLoad when I start my webapp:
> 18:53:20 INFO GC On Load configuration is being loaded from
> /WEB-INF/onload-config.xml
> 18:53:20 INFO GC 2 rule(s) have been found
> 18:53:20 DEBUG GC Rule: view-id: /index.jspx, action:
> #{scoreController.getScore1}, success-result: null
> 18:53:20 DEBUG GC Rule: view-id: /faces/page*, action:
> #{scoreController.score99}, success-result: 9
>
> Now when I go to index.jspx, I want to check if the user is logged in. For
> my test I am using the scoreController object returns "1" as a string from
> getScore1. I tried setting success-result to null, "1", and "9", but not
> matter what I set it too the navigation always goes to index.jspx. As a
> test I tried extending OnLoadPhaseListener's beforeHandleNavigation
> function and returning false, but that didn't work either.
>
> Here are the logs I get when I I click "index.jspx" menu. (In this test
> run I have success-result set to null).
> 18:53:20 DEBUG GC Processing on load of view /index.jspx
> 18:53:20 DEBUG GC Looking for rule for view /index.jspx
> 18:53:20 DEBUG GC Checking for exact match. Rule view: /index.jspx
> 18:53:20 INFO GC Found rule with exact match
> 18:53:20 DEBUG GC Invoking action: #{scoreController.getScore1}
> 18:53:20 INFO JSF Using LifecycleProvider
> org.apache.myfaces.config.annotation.TomcatAnnotationLifecycleProvider
> 18:53:20 INFO JSF Creating instance of
> com.stoddardsoftware.golfclap.web.score.ScoreController
> 18:53:20 INFO GC NATE TEST: processing beforeHandleNavigation now...
> 18:53:20 DEBUG GC Calling navigation handler with result: 1
> 18:53:23 INFO JSF Creating instance of
> org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.model.XMLMenuModel
>
> At this point I'm out of ideas. Can someone show me an example of how to
> check if my user is logged in and then redirect to the login page if they
> are not? Can this be done completely from onload-config.xml or will I need
> to extend OnLoadPhaseListener to redirect?
>
> Thank you for taking the time to help.
>
> -Nate
>
>
