Question

why does the view return a null ? thanks in advance.

this is my view jsp

String abb = "ab";
String cdd = "cd";
UserPass user = UserDb.selectUser(abb,cdd);
out.println(user);

and this is my UserPass class

public class UserPass {
    String username;
    String password;

    public UserPass(){
       this.username ="";
       this.password ="";     
    }

    public void setUserName(String username) {
       this.username = username;
    }

    public String getUserName(){ 
       return username;
    }
}

and finally the data package, UserDb

String query = "select user_name from UserPass where user_name = ? AND user_password = ? " ;

try{
    ps = connection.prepareStatement(query);
    ps.setString(1, username);
    ps.setString(2, password);

    rs = ps.executeQuery();

    if (rs.getString("user_name") != null) {
        UserPass up = new UserPass();
        up.setUserName(rs.getString("user_name"));
        return up;

    } else {
        return null;
    }
}

My database is simple and the entries are there user_name and user_password. The view returns null

Answer 1

You need to use rs.next() to check if the current row is valid first:

rs = ps.executeQuery();
if (rs.next()) {
    UserPass up = new UserPass();
    up.setUserName(rs.getString("user_name"));
    return up;
} else {
    return null;
}