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/* Copyright 2005-2006 Tim Fennell
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package net.sourceforge.stripes.controller;
import net.sourceforge.stripes.action.ActionBean;
import net.sourceforge.stripes.action.ActionBeanContext;
import net.sourceforge.stripes.exception.StripesRuntimeException;
import net.sourceforge.stripes.util.Log;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.Semaphore;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
/**
* A FlashScope is an object that can be used to store objects and make them available as
* request parameters during this request cycle and the next one. It is extremely useful
* when implementing the redirect-after-post pattern in which an ActionBean receives a POST,
* does some processing and then redirects to a JSP to display the outcome. FlashScopes make
* temporary use of session to store themselves briefly between two requests.
*
* In general, use of the FlashScope should be intermediated by the
* {@link net.sourceforge.stripes.action.ActionBeanContext}, making it transparent to the
* rest of the application. Any object that is put into a FlashScope will be immediately
* exposed in the current request as a request attribute, and under certain conditions will
* also be exposed in the subsequent request as a request attribute.
*
* To make values available to the subsequent request a parameter must be included in
* the redirect URL that identifies the flash scope to use (this avoids collisions where two
* concurrent requests in the same session might otherwise cause problems for one another).
* The Stripes {@link net.sourceforge.stripes.action.RedirectResolution} will automatically
* insert this parameter into the URL when a flash scope is present. Should you wish to issue
* redirects using a different mechanism you will need to add the parameter using code
* similar to the following:
*
*
*FlashScope flash = FlashScope.getCurrent(request, false);
*if (flash != null) {
* url.addParameter(StripesConstants.URL_KEY_FLASH_SCOPE_ID, flash.key());
*}
*
*
* The lifecycle of a FlashScope is managed is conjunction with the {@link StripesFilter}.
* FlashScopes are manufactured using lazy instantiation when
* {@code FlashScope.getCurrent(request, true)} is called. When a request is completed, the
* StripesFilter notifies the current FlashScope that the request is over, which causes it
* to record the time when the request terminated. On the subsequent request, if the flash
* scope is referenced by a URL parameter, then it is removed from session and it's contents
* are pushed into request attributes for the current request.
*
* To ensure that orphaned FlashScopes do not consume increasing amounts of HttpSession memory,
* the StripesFilter, after each request, checks to see if any FlashScopes have recently expired.
* A FlashScope is expired when the length of time from the end of the request that created the
* FlashScope is greater than the timeout set on the FlashScope. The default timeout is 120 seconds
* (or two minutes), and can be varied by calling {@link #setTimeout(int)} Since the timer
* starts when a request completes, and FlashScopes are only meant to live from the end of one
* request to the beginning of a subsequent request this value is set quite low.
*
* @author Tim Fennell
* @since Stripes 1.2
*/
public class FlashScope extends HashMap {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
/** The default timeout for a flash scope. */
public static final int DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS = 120;
private static final Log log = Log.getInstance(FlashScope.class);
private static final Random random = new Random();
private long startTime;
private int timeout = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS;
private HttpServletRequest request;
private Integer key;
private Semaphore semaphore;
/**
* Protected constructor to prevent random creation of FlashScopes. Uses the request
* to generate a key under which the flash scope will be stored, and can be identified
* by later.
*
* @param request the request for which this flash scope will be used.
* @param key the key by which this flash scope can be looked up in the map
*/
protected FlashScope(HttpServletRequest request, Integer key) {
this.request = request;
this.key = key;
this.semaphore = new Semaphore(1);
this.semaphore.acquireUninterruptibly();
}
/** Returns the timeout in seconds after which the flash scope will be discarded. */
public int getTimeout() { return timeout; }
/** Sets the timeout in seconds after which the flash scope will be discarded. */
public void setTimeout(int timeout) { this.timeout = timeout; }
/**
* Returns the key used to store this flash scope in the collection of flash scopes.
*/
public Integer key() {
return key;
}
/**
* Get the semaphore that is used to synchronize the calls to {@link #completeRequest()} and
* {@link #beginRequest(HttpServletRequest)} made by {@link StripesFilter}.
*/
protected Semaphore getSemaphore() {
return semaphore;
}
/**
* Renamed to {@link #completeRequest()}.
*/
@Deprecated
public void requestComplete() {
completeRequest();
}
/**
* Used by the StripesFilter to notify the flash scope that the request for which
* it is used has been completed. The FlashScope uses this notification to start a
* timer, and also to null out it's reference to the request so that it can be
* garbage collected.
*
* The timer is used to determine if a flash scope has been orphaned (i.e. the subsequent
* request was not made) after a period of time, so that it can be removed from session.
*/
public void completeRequest() {
// Clean up any old-age flash scopes
Map scopes = getContainer(request, false);
if (scopes != null && !scopes.isEmpty()) {
Iterator iterator = scopes.values().iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
if (iterator.next().isExpired()) {
iterator.remove();
}
}
}
// Replace the request and response objects for the request cycle that is ending
// with objects that are safe to use on the ensuing request.
HttpServletRequest flashRequest = FlashRequest.replaceRequest(request);
HttpServletResponse flashResponse = (HttpServletResponse) Proxy.newProxyInstance(
getClass().getClassLoader(),
new Class[] { HttpServletResponse.class },
new FlashResponseInvocationHandler());
for (Object o : this.values()) {
if (o instanceof ActionBean) {
ActionBeanContext context = ((ActionBean) o).getContext();
if (context != null) {
context.setRequest(flashRequest);
context.setResponse(flashResponse);
}
}
}
// start timer, clear request
this.startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
this.request = null;
this.semaphore.release();
}
/**
*
* Called by {@link StripesFilter} to copy all the attributes from this flash scope to the given
* {@code request}. {@link #beginRequest(HttpServletRequest)} must never be called before
* {@link #completeRequest()} is called. Since the two methods are normally called by different
* threads, synchronization of the calls is accomplished through use of a {@link Semaphore}.
*
*
* @param request The request to copy the flash scope attributes to
*/
public void beginRequest(HttpServletRequest request) {
boolean acquired = false;
try {
// Acquire the permit from the semaphore with a 1 second timeout for safety
acquired = getSemaphore().tryAcquire(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
// If no permit was acquired, then that's bad so log it as an error
if (!acquired) {
log.error("Something is amiss! A timeout occurred while trying to copy a flash "
+ "scope to a new request. Only StripesFilter should call "
+ "FlashScope.completeRequest() and FlashScope.beginRequest(), and the "
+ "calls must be properly synchronized. The timeout likely means that "
+ "completeRequest() was never called or did not complete successfully "
+ "on this flash scope.");
}
// Copy all the attributes from this scope to the request scope
for (Map.Entry entry : entrySet()) {
Object value = entry.getValue();
if (value instanceof ActionBean) {
HttpServletRequest tmp = ((ActionBean) value).getContext().getRequest();
if (tmp != null) {
tmp = StripesRequestWrapper.findStripesWrapper(tmp);
if (tmp != null) {
tmp = (HttpServletRequest) ((StripesRequestWrapper) tmp).getRequest();
if (tmp instanceof FlashRequest)
((FlashRequest) tmp).setDelegate(request);
}
}
}
request.setAttribute(entry.getKey(), value);
}
}
catch (InterruptedException e) {
throw new StripesRuntimeException(e);
}
finally {
// Make sure the semaphore permit gets released
if (acquired)
getSemaphore().release();
}
}
/**
* Returns the time in seconds since the request that generated this flash scope
* completed. Will return 0 if this flash scope has not yet started to age.
*/
public long age() {
if (startTime == 0) {
return 0;
}
else {
return (System.currentTimeMillis() - this.startTime) / 1000;
}
}
/**
* Returns true if the flash scope has expired and should be dereferenced to allow
* garbage collection. Returns false if the flash scope should be retained.
*
* @return true if the flash scope has expired, false otherwise
*/
public boolean isExpired() {
return age() > this.timeout;
}
/**
* Stores the provided value both in the flash scope a under the specified name, and
* in a request attribute with the specified name. Allows flash scope attributes to be
* accessed seamlessly as request attributes during both the current request and the
* subsequent request.
*
* @param name the name of the attribute to add to flash scope
* @param value the value to be added
* @return the previous object stored with the same name (possibly null)
*/
@Override
public Object put(String name, Object value) {
this.request.setAttribute(name, value);
return super.put(name, value);
}
/**
* Stores an ActionBean into the flash scope. Additional checking is performed to see
* if the ActionBean is the currently resolved (main) ActionBean for the request. The
* result is that on the next request the ActionBean will appear in the request as if
* it was created on that request.
*
* @param bean an ActionBean that should be present in the next request
*/
public void put(ActionBean bean) {
String binding = StripesFilter.getConfiguration()
.getActionResolver().getUrlBinding(bean.getClass());
super.put(binding, bean);
ActionBean main = (ActionBean) request.getAttribute(StripesConstants.REQ_ATTR_ACTION_BEAN);
if (main != null && main.equals(bean)) {
super.put(StripesConstants.REQ_ATTR_ACTION_BEAN, bean);
}
}
/**
* Gets the collection of all flash scopes present in the current session.
* @param req the current request, needed to get access to the session
* @return a collection of flash scopes. Will return an empty collection if there are
* no flash scopes present.
*/
public static Collection getAllFlashScopes(HttpServletRequest req) {
Map scopes = getContainer(req, false);
if (scopes == null) {
return Collections.emptySet();
}
else {
return scopes.values();
}
}
/**
* Fetch the flash scope that was populated during the previous request, if one exists.
* This is only really intended for use by the StripesFilter and things which extend it,
* in order to grab a flash scope for a previous request and empty it's contents into request
* attributes.
*
* NOTE: calling this method has the side-affect of removing the flash scope from
* the set of managed flash scopes!
*
* @param req the current request
* @return a FlashScope if one exists with the key provided.
*/
public static FlashScope getPrevious(HttpServletRequest req) {
String keyString = req.getParameter(StripesConstants.URL_KEY_FLASH_SCOPE_ID);
if (keyString == null) {
return null;
}
else {
try {
Integer id = new Integer(keyString);
Map scopes = getContainer(req, false);
return scopes == null ? null : scopes.remove(id);
}
catch (NumberFormatException e) {
return null;
}
}
}
/**
*
* Gets the current flash scope into which items can be stored temporarily. If
* create is true, then a new one will be created.
*
*
* It is assumed that the request object will be used by only one thread so access to the
* request is not synchronized. Access to the scopes map that is stored in the session and the
* static {@link Random} that is used to generate the keys for the map is synchronized.
*
*
* @param req the current request
* @param create if true then the FlashScope will be created when it does not exist already
* @return the current FlashScope, or null if it does not exist and create is false
*/
public static FlashScope getCurrent(HttpServletRequest req, boolean create) {
Map scopes = getContainer(req, create);
if (scopes == null) {
return null;
}
else {
FlashScope scope = null;
Integer key = (Integer) req.getAttribute(StripesConstants.REQ_ATTR_CURRENT_FLASH_SCOPE);
if (key != null) {
scope = scopes.get(key);
}
else if (create) {
synchronized (random) {
do {
key = random.nextInt();
} while (scopes.containsKey(key));
scope = new FlashScope(req, key);
scopes.put(scope.key(), scope);
}
req.setAttribute(StripesConstants.REQ_ATTR_CURRENT_FLASH_SCOPE, key);
}
return scope;
}
}
/**
* Internal helper method to retrieve (and selectively create) the container for all
* the flash scopes. Will return null if the container does not exist and create is
* false. Will also return null if the current session has been invalidated, regardless
* of the value of create.
*
* @param req the current request
* @param create if true, create the container when it doesn't exist.
* @return a Map of integer keys to FlashScope objects
*/
private static Map getContainer(HttpServletRequest req, boolean create) {
try {
HttpSession session = req.getSession(create);
Map scopes = null;
if (session != null) {
scopes = getContainer(session);
if (scopes == null && create) {
synchronized (FlashScope.class) {
// after obtaining a lock, try looking it up again
scopes = getContainer(session);
// if still not there, then create and save it
if (scopes == null) {
scopes = new ConcurrentHashMap();
session.setAttribute(StripesConstants.REQ_ATTR_FLASH_SCOPE_LOCATION, scopes);
}
}
}
}
return scopes;
}
catch (IllegalStateException ise) {
// If the session has been invalidated we'll get this exception, but there's no
// way to know this without try and getting the exception :(
log.warn("An IllegalStateException got thrown trying to create a flash scope. ",
"This happens when add something to flash scope for the first time ",
"causes creation of the HttpSession, but for some other reason the ",
"response is already committed!");
return null;
}
}
/**
* Internal helper method to retrieve the container for all the flash scopes. Will return null
* if the container does not exist.
*
* @param session
* @return a Map of integer keys to FlashScope objects
* @throws IllegalStateException if the session has been invalidated
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
private static Map getContainer(HttpSession session)
throws IllegalStateException {
return (Map) session
.getAttribute(StripesConstants.REQ_ATTR_FLASH_SCOPE_LOCATION);
}
}