Re: user is nulled out on login attempt

Hi Nathan,

I assume that you are using Turbine 2.3.x.

I may be wrong and I don't have the code to hand at the moment, but I 
suspect that you might need to look at the SessionValidator which is 
called before you get to the login page.

The SessionValidator is pluggable if you need to modify it.

I hope that this helps.

Regards,

Peter

Shaw, Nathan (HQ-LD070)[InDyne, Inc] wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am writing my own login action and need to be able to check to see if a user is already logged in when the action is called. If they are, I want to skip the login stuff to preserve their session. However, every single time that the login action is called, the User object is coming back NULL.
> 
> Here is a code snippet. Does anyone have any idea WHY the user is coming back NULL? I assume something is happening in Turbine somewhere that wipes the User on a login attempt or something?
> 
> 
> public class OutageCalLoginUser extends LoginUser  {
> 
> public void doPerform( RunData data, Context context) throws Exception {
>     String uname ;
>     String passwd ;
>     
>     System.out.println("doPerform(data, context)");
>     if ( data.getUserFromSession() == null ){
>     	System.out.println("user from session is null");
>     }else{
>     	System.out.println("user from session is NOT null");
>     }
>     
>     if(data.getUser() == null){
>     	System.out.println("user is null");
>     }else{
>     	System.out.println("user is NOT null");
>     	if(data.getUser().hasLoggedIn()){
>         	System.out.println("user is logged in");
>         }else{
>         	System.out.println("user is NOT logged in");
>         }
>     }
>     
>     
>     if((data.getUser() == null) || (data.getUser() != null && data.getUser().hasLoggedIn() == false)){
>     	
> 	    try {
> 	      SymEncDec enc = SymEncDec.getInstance();
> 	      
> 	      // Username/password = username/pswd coming through front door.
> 	      // User coming from elsewhere will have neither username nor pswd.
> 	      String username = data.getParameters().get("username");
> 	      String pswd = data.getParameters().get("password");
> 	
> 	      // If username exists, user came in the front door.
> 	      if (username != null && username.length()>0) {
> 	    	  uname = username;
> 	    	  passwd = pswd;
> 	      }else {
> 	          uname = "guest";
> 	          String encryptedPasswd = TurbineResources.getString("guest.credential");
> 	          passwd = encryptedPasswd;
> 	          //enc.decodeBase64Decrypt(encryptedPasswd);
> 	      }
> 	      // Log the user in
> 	      doLogin(data, uname, passwd);
> 	      
> 	      try {
> 	        Utils.getUserID(data);
> 	      }
> 	      catch (NullPointerException npe) {
> 	        throw new TurbineSecurityException("Bad username or password, I say!");
> 	      }
> 	
> 	    }
> 	    catch ( TurbineSecurityException se ) {
> 	      badUserOrPassword(se, data);
> 	    }
> 	    catch (Exception e) {
> 	      throw new PortalVelocityException(e.getMessage()==null?": "+e.getMessage():e.getMessage(),
> 	        e.getCause()==null?e:e.getCause(), data);
> 	    }
>     
>     }
>   }
> 
> } 
>