Doesn't return true value .........

Question

Hi All,
please check the following code.
password (originalPassword) from the database is : xyz
password (password) from the login page is : xyz
when I try for equality for the password :
if(originalPassword.equalsIgnoreCase(password)) {
it doesn't return true value while the password is same that is : xyz ?
I an stuck in the problem.
Please look into the code and solve my problem.
Thanks
public boolean verifyPassword(String username, String password) {
        String originalPassword=null;
        try {
            Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver");
           Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://sqlserver:1433","harish","harish");
           PreparedStatement pstmt = con.prepareStatement("select password from registration where username='"+username+"'");          
           //ResultSet rs = pstmt.getResultSet();
           ResultSet rs = pstmt.executeQuery();
           if(rs.next()) {
               originalPassword=rs.getString(1);              
           pstmt.close();
           if(originalPassword.equalsIgnoreCase(password)) {
                          return true;
           } else {
               return false;
       } catch (Exception e){
           System.out.println("Exception: verifyPassword="+e);
           return false;
     Harish Pathak

Answer 1

Are you sure there's no space before or after "xyz"? Try adding some debug output to your code:
if(originalPassword.equalsIgnoreCase(password)) {
  //foo
} else {
  System.out.println("<" + password + "> does not match <" + originalPassword + ">");
}