hi I am practicing session tracking with HttpServlets. I get an error null pointer exception in this code (in the else block). Can anyone please help me? Thanks
@WebServlet(name = "SessionTracking", urlPatterns = {"/SessionTracking"})
public class SessionTracking extends HttpServlet {
/**
* Processes requests for both HTTP
* <code>GET</code> and
* <code>POST</code> methods.
*
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
* @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
* @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
*/
protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
Integer counter = (Integer)session.getAttribute("sessionCounter");
if (session.isNew())
{
counter = new Integer(1);
session.setMaxInactiveInterval(10);
}
else
{
counter = new Integer(counter.intValue() + 1);//nullPointerException Here
}
session.setAttribute("sessionCounter", counter);
try {
/* TODO output your page here. You may use following sample code. */
out.println("<!DOCTYPE html>");
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet SessionTracking</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<h1>Session Tracking: </h1>");
out.println("<p>You have visited this page <b>" + counter + "</b> times</p>");
out.println("<h3>Session Data: </h3>");
out.println("New Session: " + session.isNew() + "<br/>");
out.println("Session ID: " + session.getId());
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
}
finally
{
out.close();
}
}
It seems that session.getAttribute("sessionCounter") is returning a null even when the session is not new according to session.isNew(). Try replacing session.isNew() with counter == null and see if it works. The effect should be the same.