No, I'm not seeing an exception for that. I'm starting to think now that perhaps I'm doing this in the wrong place. After all the purpose of a controller should simply be to prepare data for rendering in a JSP tile. I'm wondering though if this is the case what the purpose is of having the HttpServletRequest as a parameter to a Controller?
I'm now considering moving my database code into an action, and then setting the cookie in there before handing off to a slimmed-down controller. On 2/21/06, David G. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian, > > Are your logs showing any errors about the reponse already being committed? > If the headers have already been sent then > adding cookies after that would be a useless task. But I think you would > probably have seen Java Exceptions at that > point. > > -David > > -----Original Message----- > From: brian papa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:59 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: using tiles and setting a cookie > > > Yeah that doesn't seem to be the problem, and the ".mysite.com" is > working with an Action anyway... setting the cookie the same exact > way. > > I'm wondering if this is some trouble with tiles. I see using my > debugger that the internals of the Response object in a Controller > seem different then it does in an Action. > > On 2/21/06, David G. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried it without the domain setting to ensure that your chosen > > domain of ".mysite.com" isn't interfering with > > the cookie handoff? There is the possibility that the browser is > > configured to accept anything other than the exact > > hostname, though you have probably looked into that and tried that already. > > I made that suggestion since I've > > previously read of problems like that on this list. > > > > Regards, > > David > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: brian papa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:42 PM > > To: Struts Users Mailing List > > Subject: Re: using tiles and setting a cookie > > > > > > I was unaware of that actually. But, even outside of the debugger the > > cookie isn't seen on the client side. And it isn't seen on the next > > request. Here's some of the code - > > > > In the controller class (it's an abstract class): > > > > public void execute(ComponentContext componentContext, > > HttpServletRequest request, > > HttpServletResponse response, ServletContext > > servletContext) throws Exception { > > Object someObj= > > someAbstractMethod(componentContext,request,response,servletContext); > > // set a cookie > > Cookie cookie = new Cookie("cookieName","cookieValue"); > > cookie.setDomain(".mysite.com"); > > cookie.setMaxAge(-1); > > response.addCookie(cookie); > > } > > > > Later on, in another request, I try to get the cookie using - > > > > Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies() > > > > But my new cookie is nowhere to be found. As I said in the original > > post, in my application it's working fine when I set the cookies in > > Actions, but not in Controllers. > > > > On 2/21/06, David G. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian, > > > > > > When and where are you looking for a value change with your debugger? You > > > do know that the cookie won't be seen > until > > > the response ends, right? The NEW cookie is given to the client's > > > browser and won't be seen by the server until the > > > client's next request. Can you give the controller method and some > > > relevant code pieces? > > > > > > Regards, > > > David > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: brian papa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:47 PM > > > To: user@struts.apache.org > > > Subject: using tiles and setting a cookie > > > > > > > > > I'm having a problem setting a cookie inside of a Controller class. > > > > > > My custom controller extends from the base Controller class. Inside of > > > my class, I'm simply trying to set a cookie to the > > > HttpServletResponse. Inside of a Strut Action class, it's been working > > > just fine. But in the controller, the response.addCookie method seems > > > to do nothing. Using a debugger I see no value change. No exception is > > > thrown and the application seems to progress as if nothing happened. > > > > > > Any ideas? Did I forget to configure something? 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