Seam session outlives the GateIn session

[renevv]

I have created a very simple portlet containing a seam bean that supplies credentials for the current user.

The portlet was created by using a maven archetype:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.jboss.portletbridge.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=seam-basic -DarchetypeVersion=2.0.0.CR1 -DgroupId=simple -DartifactId=Simple -DarchetypeRepository=http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/

GateIn version: 3.0.0-GA

PortletBridge version: 2.0.0.CR1

My problem is that when I sign out of GateIn my seam session survives,  and when I sign in as a new user, I still get the username of the previous  user. I thought that the portlet bridge would end my seam session when I sign out of the portal and thereby killing my currentUser bean?

What is the correct approach to handling GateIn login/logout in my portlet? Any help will be appreciated

Code for currentUser bean is attached.

[rafaelliu]

Seems like a portal issue. The session that Seam sees is the Portlet Session (JBoss Portlet Bridge does this conversion), and apearently the Portlet Session invalidation isn't invalidating Portlet Sessions as it should.

Please, file a JIRA.

[renevv]

Thank you for the quick reply.

That was the behaviour I expected i.e. that the bridge would take care of the session. But does it nessesarily point at a portal problem, could it not be the portlet bridge having an issue with handling the conversion from Portlet Session to Seam Session?

Any ideas for a quick test that could isolate the problem?

[theute]

If webapp session dies, the portlet session dies with it (portlet session is just reusing the webapp session).

The issue here is that when the session of the portal webapp dies, the sessions of the portlets webapp can't know. It's not just about Seam.

We had a workaround in JBoss Portal that was working pretty well, would need to be ported to GateIn. Can you open a Jira ? And if you feel fancy, would you like to try to port that feature ?

[renevv]

Thank you Thomas Heute - that properly saved me some hours of debugging

I have created a new Jira bug report :  https://jira.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-1257

Are you able to estimate when the workaround from Jboss Portal could be included in a GateIn release? Are there any 'elegant' ways to handle this issue until a fix has been included?

[michaelschuetz]

Are you able to estimate when the workaround from Jboss Portal could be included in a GateIn release? Are there any 'elegant' ways to handle this issue until a fix has been included?

I'm facing the same problem. Are there any news on this? Would appreciate hint for working around this issue.

Cheers

Michael

[theute]

It's actually resolved (Jira status was wrong) and will be included in GateIn 3.2 and EPP 5.1.

EPP 5.1 is scheduled for December, while we didn't define a date for GateIn 3.2 yet (still working on some feature requests). If you build GateIn from trunk you will have the feature.

[michaelschuetz]

Thomas, thanks for this update. BTW, will GateIn 3.2 run on AS 6 out of the box?

Thanks

Michael

[theute]

It's actually one of the thing we are looking at (I would like to have it), but as you know AS6 is in milestone phase and the classloading behavior has changed. So maybe we can have some kind of "preview". Any help is welcome

Tomcat 7 should also be available as a package.

[michaelschuetz]

If you build GateIn from trunk you will have the feature.

I am interested in implementation details, if you don't mind. Which class would I need to look at in trunk?

As I do need release for my productional system, I would like to implement your fix for my own - until GateIn 3.2 has been released.

My guess is sth like performing this on logout:

{code}
WebAppController controller = (WebAppController)container.getComponentInstanceOfType(WebAppController.class);
         PortalApplication portalApp = controller.getApplication(PortalApplication.PORTAL_APPLICATION_ID);
         portalApp.getStateManager().expire(event.getSession().getId(), portalApp);
{code}

Right direction?

Thanks

Michael

[michaelschuetz]

So maybe we can have some kind of "preview". Any help is welcome

Cool - would love to help. Started new thread for this: http://community.jboss.org/thread/159308