How do I invalidate user’s session?

By Wayan in Servlet 0 Comment

In a web application you might want to invalidate user session, for instance in a logout Servlet or JSP. There is an invalidate() method in the HttpSession interface, this method invalidates the session, and it removes all attributes from the session object.

package org.kodejava.servlet;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
import java.io.IOException;

@WebServlet(name = "InvalidateSessionServlet", urlPatterns = "/invalidate-session")
public class InvalidateSessionServlet extends HttpServlet {

    @Override
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException {

        HttpSession session = request.getSession();

        // Invalidate the session and removes any attribute related to it
        session.invalidate();

        // Get an HttpSession related to this request, if no session exist don't
        // create a new one. This is just a check to see after invalidation the
        // session will be null.
        session = request.getSession(false);

        response.getWriter().println("Session : " + session);
    }

    @Override
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException {
        doPost(request, response);
    }
}

Maven dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.1</version>
</dependency>

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