Need help writing an interceptor to force a user to change their password

[Russell Neufeld-2]

Hi all,
   
    I'm trying to implement functionality which will force a user to a change-password page if a certain bit is set on their user account.  That is, no matter what action they are attempting to take, I'd like to intercept the request and show them a change-password page.  I've written a few struts2 interceptors before, but this one has me stumped.  I can easily get the user principal object and see whether or not I need to insert the change-password page, but I'm not sure what to do next.  I was thinking about trying to change the action object to one which would simply return a string pointing to the change-password jsp, but I don't know how to replace the action object on the invocation object (and that doesn't seem like a good idea).  I'd prefer not to solve this with a redirect because I'd like to use some of the context of current request in the rendering of the change-password page.

    Any ideas?  Thanks,

        Russ



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[Timothy Orme]

You should be able to just create a global result with the jsp you want.

Ala:

<global-results>
        <result name="passwordChange">/passwordChange.jsp</result>
</global-results>

Then have the interceptor return that string when needed. Any time it's true, the result will get hit and the user will get fowarded.

Unless I'm missing something.

-Tim

Russell Neufeld wrote:

> Hi all,
>      I'm trying to implement functionality which will force a user to a
> change-password page if a certain bit is set on their user account.  
> That is, no matter what action they are attempting to take, I'd like to
> intercept the request and show them a change-password page.  I've
> written a few struts2 interceptors before, but this one has me stumped.  
> I can easily get the user principal object and see whether or not I need
> to insert the change-password page, but I'm not sure what to do next.  I
> was thinking about trying to change the action object to one which would
> simply return a string pointing to the change-password jsp, but I don't
> know how to replace the action object on the invocation object (and that
> doesn't seem like a good idea).  I'd prefer not to solve this with a
> redirect because I'd like to use some of the context of current request
> in the rendering of the change-password page.
>
>    Any ideas?  Thanks,
>
>        Russ
>
>
>
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[Sarr, Nathan-2]

Hi Russ,
 
   You may want to try creating a global result in your struts.xml:
 
<global-results>

<result name="change-password">/pages/user/login/force_change_password.jsp</result>

</global-results>

Then in your interceptor return the result name "change-password"
 
That is how we accomplished something similar to your pblem.
 
Hope this helps.
-Nate

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From: Russell Neufeld [mailto:russ.neufeld@...]
Sent: Mon 6/29/2009 5:19 PM
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Subject: Need help writing an interceptor to force a user to change their password



Hi all,
 
    I'm trying to implement functionality which will force a user to a change-password page if a certain bit is set on their user account.  That is, no matter what action they are attempting to take, I'd like to intercept the request and show them a change-password page.  I've written a few struts2 interceptors before, but this one has me stumped.  I can easily get the user principal object and see whether or not I need to insert the change-password page, but I'm not sure what to do next.  I was thinking about trying to change the action object to one which would simply return a string pointing to the change-password jsp, but I don't know how to replace the action object on the invocation object (and that doesn't seem like a good idea).  I'd prefer not to solve this with a redirect because I'd like to use some of the context of current request in the rendering of the change-password page.

    Any ideas?  Thanks,

        Russ



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[Russell Neufeld-2]

Thanks Nate and Tim.  Worked like a charm.

    Russ

Sarr, Nathan wrote:

> Hi Russ,
>  
>    You may want to try creating a global result in your struts.xml:
>  
> <global-results>
>
> <result name="change-password">/pages/user/login/force_change_password.jsp</result>
>
> </global-results>
>
> Then in your interceptor return the result name "change-password"
>  
> That is how we accomplished something similar to your pblem.
>  
> Hope this helps.
> -Nate
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Russell Neufeld [mailto:russ.neufeld@...]
> Sent: Mon 6/29/2009 5:19 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Need help writing an interceptor to force a user to change their password
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>  
>     I'm trying to implement functionality which will force a user to a change-password page if a certain bit is set on their user account.  That is, no matter what action they are attempting to take, I'd like to intercept the request and show them a change-password page.  I've written a few struts2 interceptors before, but this one has me stumped.  I can easily get the user principal object and see whether or not I need to insert the change-password page, but I'm not sure what to do next.  I was thinking about trying to change the action object to one which would simply return a string pointing to the change-password jsp, but I don't know how to replace the action object on the invocation object (and that doesn't seem like a good idea).  I'd prefer not to solve this with a redirect because I'd like to use some of the context of current request in the rendering of the change-password page.
>
>     Any ideas?  Thanks,
>
>         Russ
>
>
>
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