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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