I have a question about whether there is a race condition with the following
technique for displaying messages across redirects.
If you submit a form with an invalid value on page P1 and the receiving
servlet S redirects to another page P2, you'd like page P2 to contain a
message saying "You entered an invalid value". You can only put the value in
the session (not the request, because it's a redirect, not a forward), with
session.setAttribute("message","You entered an invalid value").
In page P2, you'd display ${message}. But to ensure that the message doesn't
remain in the method upon every access to page P2, including when valid
information is submitted, you'd create a filter that applies to servlet S
with the following code:
chain.doFilter(request,response);
session.removeAttribute("message");
This method seems to work, but is there a race condition? My understanding
is that when a servlet does a redirect, the redirect occurs in a new thread
and the rest of the current servlet execution continues (including filters)
to completion in the current thread. Couldn't the filter on servlet S
complete execution (and remove the "message" attribute) before page P2
renders, thereby leaving ${message} empty?
Thanks.
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