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    Question if statement incorrectly comparing strings

    I have a bit of code that is just a simple login screen. I have a Swing GUI showing text field and a password field with some other labels and such.

    The end user enters a user and pass and once the login button is pressed, the contents of the fields are supposed to go into string variables which then my program connects to a mySQL DB and searches for a matching username, retrieves the password associated with that username and compares the SQL password with the entered string variable pass. If they match, a dialog box appears saying they entered the right information, else, a dialog box saying they entered the wrong info.

    **NOTE: I did try setting the if to (dbpass!=pass) and it will return whatever I set it to do if they do not match. ALSO, the program is retrieving the password correctly because I, as a test, set it to displayed the retrieved pass, and it is the correct one.

    I have posted the code to the whole JPanel but have removed sensitive mySQL DB login information as I can correctly connect to the DB and pull info from it.

     
    package intro;
     
    import javax.swing.JPanel;
    import javax.swing.JLabel;
    import java.awt.Font;
     
    import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
    import javax.swing.JTextField;
    import javax.swing.JPasswordField;
    import javax.swing.JButton;
    import java.awt.event.ContainerAdapter;
    import java.awt.event.ContainerEvent;
    import java.awt.event.KeyAdapter;
    import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
    import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
    import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
    import java.sql.*;
     
    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    public class Intro extends JPanel {
    	/**
    	 * 
    	 */
    	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    	private JTextField textField;
    	private JPasswordField upass;
     
    	/**
    	 * Create the panel.
    	 */
    	public Intro() {
    		setLayout(null);
     
    		JPanel panel = new JPanel();
    		panel.setBounds(10, 11, 580, 30);
    		add(panel);
     
    		JLabel lblWelcomeToThe = new JLabel("Welcome to the TotalBuild TMS");
    		panel.add(lblWelcomeToThe);
     
    		JLabel lblMinecraftUsername = new JLabel("Minecraft Username");
    		lblMinecraftUsername.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 11));
    		lblMinecraftUsername.setBounds(20, 52, 96, 14);
    		add(lblMinecraftUsername);
     
    		JLabel lblPassword = new JLabel("Password");
    		lblPassword.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 11));
    		lblPassword.setBounds(20, 77, 96, 14);
    		add(lblPassword);
     
    		textField = new JTextField();
    		textField.setBounds(126, 49, 120, 20);
    		add(textField);
    		textField.setColumns(10);
     
    		upass = new JPasswordField();
    		upass.setBounds(126, 74, 120, 20);
    		add(upass);
     
    		JButton btnNewButton = new JButton("Login");
    		btnNewButton.isDefaultCapable();
    		btnNewButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
    				String user = textField.getText();
    				String pass = upass.getText();
    				Connection con = null;
    				String url = "jdbc:mysql://mySQL_ADDRESS:PORT/";
    				String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
    				String db = "DB_NAME";
    				try{
    					  Class.forName(driver);
    					  con = DriverManager.getConnection(url+db, "mySQL_USER", "mySQL_PASS");
    					  try{
    					  Statement st = con.createStatement();
    					  st.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM ustep1 WHERE user='" + user + "'");
    					  ResultSet rs = st.getResultSet ();
    					  String dbpass = "";
    					  while (rs.next ())
    					   {
    						  dbpass = rs.getString("pass");
    					   }
    					  if(dbpass==pass){
    					  String result = "Welcome, " + user + ". You entered the correct login info.";
    					  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, result);
    					  } else {
    						  String result2 = "Sorry " + user + ", You entered incorrect login info." + dbpass;
    						  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, result2);
    					  }
    					  }
    					  catch (SQLException s){
    					  System.err.println("SQL Error!");
    					  }
    					  }
    					  catch (Exception e){
    					  e.printStackTrace();
    					  }
     
    			}
    		});
    		btnNewButton.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 11));
    		btnNewButton.setBounds(30, 102, 89, 23);
    		add(btnNewButton);
     
    		JButton btnRegister = new JButton("Register");
    		btnRegister.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 11));
    		btnRegister.setEnabled(false);
    		btnRegister.setBounds(136, 102, 89, 23);
    		add(btnRegister);
     
    	}
     
    	private void setDefaultButton(JButton btnNewButton) {
    		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
     
    	}
     
    }
    Last edited by Pantheon8; August 14th, 2011 at 08:59 PM.


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    Default Re: if statement incorrectly comparing strings

    just realized I was using "==" instead of (dbpass.equals(pass))...

    DOH!

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