Re: [WebMacro-user] Session variable disappearing

[Tim <ti...@pa...>]

On Friday 28 May 2004 10:52, Graeme J Sweeney wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 2004, Tim wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Been stuck for a little while on a disappearing session variable
> >
> > In one servlet (derived from a copy of WMServlet)
> > I put my User object in the session something like this:
> >
> > void store(WebContext c, User myUser) {
> >   HttpSession s = c.getSession();
> >   c.setAttribute("u", myUser);
> >   System.err.println(s.getAttribute("u"));
> > }
> > which prints out a valid User object
> >
> > However in the next servlet called
> >   HttpSession s = c.getSession();
> >   System.err.println(s.getAttribute("u"));
> > prints null
>
> <snip/>
>
> Do the session ids match on successive requests ?
No, they are different.

>
> System.err.println("session.id="+s.getId()+"@session.new="+s.isNew());
Well I just did 
System.err.println("session+session);
which prints out a different id for every servlet:
org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSessionFacade@10ca208
org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSessionFacade@c7e8a7

thanks
tim