On 09/05/2010 21:22, Yucca Nel wrote:
> I have a double login requirement because I need some finer detals that 
> tomcst's container authentication does not seem to provide.
> I need a way to atore username in business logic scope when logged in (mainly 
> just  the username) my current solution is not working as follows:
> 
> I submit action to backing method which is coded in the jsf as follows in the 
> login page:
> 
> 
> <f:view>
>     <body style="background-color:#7b68ee;margin:auto">
>     <div align="center" id="header"><jsp:include page="/header.jsp"/></div>
>     <div align="center">
>         <div align="center" id="centred-content"style="border-width:3px; 
> border-style: solid; border-color: #7fffd4;width:800px">
>             <div id="h1" align="center">
>                 <h:outputText value="#{loginMsg.h1}..." style="color:white; 
> font-family:fantasy;font-size:large;"/><br>
>                 <h:outputText value="#{loginMsg.h2}..." style="color:white; 
> font-family:fantasy;font-size:large;"/></div>
>             <div align="center">
>                 <h:form>

How does the form defined here, know which method to submit the date
with (GET or POST) and to which URL (there's no action attribute)?


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>                     <h:panelGrid columns="2">
> 
>                         <h:outputText value="#{registerMsg.userName}:" 
> style="color:yellow;"/>
>                         <h:inputText id="j_username" 
> value="#{loginForm.username}" 
> title="#{registerMsg.userNameTitle}"required="true">
> 
>                             <f:validateLength maximum="20" minimum="6"/>
>                         <h:outputText value="#{registerMsg.password}:" 
> style="color:yellow;"/>
>                         <h:inputSecret id="j_passwword" 
> value="#{loginForm.password}" 
> title="#{registerMsg.passwordTitle}"required="true" >
> 
>                         </h:inputSecret>
> 
>                     </h:panelGrid>
> 
>                     <h:commandButton action="#{loginForm.confirmCredentials}" 
> value="#{loginMsg.login}"style="color:#20b2aa;" />
>                     <br>
>                 </h:form>
> 
> then in loginForm.java I have the method coded as follows to set my managed 
> bean and hopefuly dispatch on continer needed login credentials. 
> 
> 
> public String confirmCredentials() throws IOException, ServletException {     
>    UserSession userSession =
>         
> (UserSession)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getSessionMap().get("userSession");
> 
>         if (UserManagerBean.confirmLogin(username, password)) {
>             
>             UsersEntity user = UserManagerBean.findUser(username);
>             userSession.setCurrentUser(user);
>             return "home";
>         }
>         FacesMessage message = new FacesMessage();
>         message.setSummary("Login Error");
>         message.setDetail("Unable to log you in -"
>            +  " username and password combination not found.");
>         message.setSeverity(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_WARN);
>         FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage(null,message);
>         ExternalContext ectx =
> FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext();
>   HttpServletRequest request =
> (HttpServletRequest)ectx.getRequest();
>   HttpServletResponse response =
> (HttpServletResponse)ectx.getResponse();
>   RequestDispatcher dispatcher =
> request.getRequestDispatcher("j_security_check");
>   dispatcher.forward(request,response);
>   return null;
>     }
> 
> it never reaches the j_security check servlet
> 
> anyone know why?
> 
> The method works fine when called from outside containers security context 
> defined around the  page request.
> 
> 
> 


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