Servlet that starts a thread only once for every visitor
- by user858749
Hey I want to implement a Java Servlet that starts a thread only once for every single user. Even on refresh it should not start again. My last approach brought me some trouble so no code^^. Any Suggestions for the layout of the servlet?
public class LoaderServlet extends HttpServlet {
// The thread to load the needed information
private LoaderThread loader;
// The last.fm account
private String lfmaccount;
public LoaderServlet() {
super();
lfmaccount = "";
}
@Override
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
if (loader != null) {
response.setContentType("text/plain");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.write(loader.getStatus());
out.flush();
out.close();
} else {
loader = new LoaderThread(lfmaccount);
loader.start();
request.getRequestDispatcher("WEB-INF/pages/loader.jsp").forward(
request, response);
}
}
@Override
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
if (lfmaccount.isEmpty()) {
lfmaccount = request.getSession().getAttribute("lfmUser")
.toString();
}
request.getRequestDispatcher("WEB-INF/pages/loader.jsp").forward(
request, response);
}
}
The jsp uses ajax to regularly post to the servlet and get the status. The thread just runs like 3 minutes, crawling some last.fm data.
