Problem with set/get attribs in HttpSessions

Question

I'm collecting data attributes from an LDAP server and storing them in the individual session. The string containing the attribute name is comprised of 3 elements concatenated together: the servet name, the literal "selectID" and a 4 digit sequence number converted to a string using the valueOf method. The session will contain 10 or more of these uniquely name session attributes. But, when I later attempt to retrieve them, every call to getAttribute retrieves the same data element, the last one stored. I have verified that I am using unique attribute names, yet mu servlet behaves as if its always over-writing the same attribute. Are there any sutble "gotchas" I need to allow for???

Answer 1

Any chance you're populating the same object every
time from LDAP? If all the references added to the
session were the same, then the value would be the
last one added.
If this is not helpful, can you post the relevant
code?Nope. But I did finally discover my error, staring at me right in the face and me with a sheepish grin -- a dumb newbie error, and at my age :-) The object in question is a 7 element String array and I was declaring it outside the for loop reading the enumerations. So I was simply storing the exact same object on each iteration and so naturally, each getAttribute retrieved the exact same object under a different name. Moved the new String[7] declaration to within the scope of the loop, and works jusr like it should. I think I'll go and hide now.