Question

On login, a user can be redirected to the page that requested login using the url value set in flash.

Is is possible to have the same use case, redirect the user to the page that requested the logout action after logout?

Answer 1

thank you all for the comments on the question, going with Johan Sjöberg‘s suggestions, even stackoverflow is using it ;-), check the logout link.

On the template

<a href="@{Secure.logout2(request.url)}">logout</a>

In Secure.java i added logout2

public static void logout2(String returnUrl) throws Throwable {
    flash.put("returnUrl", returnUrl == null ? "/" : returnUrl);
    logout();
}

and modified logout

public static void logout() throws Throwable {
    session.clear();
    response.removeCookie("rememberme");
    Security.invoke("onDisconnected");
    flash.success(Messages.get("secure.logout", "You have been successfully logged out"));

    String returnUrl = flash.get("returnUrl");
    redirect(returnUrl == null ? "/" : returnUrl);
}