sendRedirect() not working??

[Joe San]

Hi guys,

I tried the following code below. I had setup Oracle Database. I created a sample login screen just to test how sendRedirect and RequestDispatch works. I have the following,

The code inside my myServler class,

response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        
        String userName = request.getParameter("userName");
        String passWord = request.getParameter("passWord");
        if(userName == "XXX" && passWord == "YYY"){
            response.sendRedirect("admin.jsp");
        }else{
        LoginClass lc = new LoginClass();//My model class which has the logic to connect to a database and check if the username and password are valid...
        try{
        if(lc.authenticate(userName, passWord)){
          response.sendRedirect("welcome.jsp");
        }
        else{
          response.sendRedirect("retry.html");
        }
        }catch(SQLException sqlex){out.println("Sorry as we have some internal error. Try again after some time!");}
        lc = null;
        }
        out.close();

Now, I want my code to behave like this, when the user name and password = xxx and yyy respectively, then I shud be redirected to admin.jsp page rather than landing in welcome.jsp as above. But when I tried this, everytime I land up in welcome.jsp instead of going to admin.jsp when xxx and yyy are my request parameters. Can anyone help me with this please??

Thanks in advance.

[Johan Pelgrim]

Jothi,

When you use

if(userName.equals("XXX") && passWord.equals("YYY")){

instead of the "String == String" construction it should work...
[ January 05, 2007: Message edited by: Johan Pelgrim ]

[Sreeraj G Harilal]

try this

if(userName.equalsIgnoreCase("XXX") && passWord.equalsIgnoreCase("YYY"))
{
      response.sendRedirect("admin.jsp");
}
else
{
}

[Ali Gohar]

 
 if(userName == "XXX" && passWord == "YYY"){            response.sendRedirect("admin.jsp");        
}

This is the problematic code. "==" compares references not contents of String, however String class overrides equals() method to provide the comparison functionality of contents.

Hope it helps

[Joe San]

Guys,

Thanks for the help. Finally it worked!