Okay, so I even printed out the values of the variables that will be compared to the username and password. Username luke Password: password Username Attempt: luke Password Attempt: [C@5e15c325
But I'm attempting to input 'password'.... The JPasswordField holds a character array, so I have to use the 'toCharArray' when comparing the char [] 'passwordAttempt' and the String 'pass' that holds the password that is held in a file. Maybe this is why the password attempt is some strange value? Here's the code of the login() function:
public void login() {
//booleans for error-handling and user authentication
boolean usersInDatabase = true;
boolean userAuthentication = false;
boolean passwordAuthentication = false;
//create the data reader
try {
reader = new Scanner(user1); //user1 is a file
} catch (FileNotFoundException noUsers) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(window, "No users in the database");
usersInDatabase = false;
}
//variables
String user = ""; //variables that will hold the file data which has the
String pass = ""; //username and password
try {
user = reader.nextLine();
pass = reader.nextLine();
}
//you can skip through the error-handling
catch (NoSuchElementException noUsers) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(window, "No users in the database");
usersInDatabase = false;
}
if (usersInDatabase)
{
String userAttempt = usernameField.getText();
String message = ""; //message to display if authentication is unsuccessful
char[] passwordAttempt = passwordField.getPassword();
//okay -- important stuff
//username authentication
if (userAttempt == user) {
userAuthentication = true;
}
else
message += "Incorrect Username -- ";
//password authentication
if (passwordAttempt == pass.toCharArray()) { //check to see if the input matches the string (a character array) that has the value of the file
passwordAuthentication = true;
}
else
message += "Incorrect Password";
if (passwordAuthentication == true && userAuthentication == true)
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(window, "Authorization Successful");
cards.show(cardPanel, "documents");
}
else if(passwordAuthentication == false && userAuthentication == false)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(window, message);
//to print out the values for debugging
System.out.println("Username " + user + "\nPassword: " + pass + "\nUsername Attempt: " + userAttempt + "\nPassword Attempt: " + passwordAttempt);
}
}
