how to return multiple json objects from java servlet using one ajax request

Question

I am building web application using jsp and servlet, I send ajax request from jsp and I want to return two json objects from servlet. I tried to do the following but the code did not work.

// in jquery I wrote this code

        var id = $(this).attr('id');

        var paramenters = {"param":id};

        $.getJSON("MyServlet", paramenters, function (data1,data2){

            $("h3#name").text(data1["name"]);

            $("span#level").text(data1["level"]);

            $("span#college").text(data2["college"]);

            $("span#department").text(data2["department"]);

        });

// in the servlet I wrote this code

    String json1 = new Gson().toJson(object1);

    String json2 = new Gson().toJson(object2);

    response.setContentType("application/json");

    response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");

    response.getWriter().write(json1);

    response.getWriter().write(json2);

can someone help me???

Answer 1

You should do it like this:

Server side:

String json1 = new Gson().toJson(object1); 
String json2 = new Gson().toJson(object2); 
response.setContentType("application/json"); 
response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8"); 
String bothJson = "["+json1+","+json2+"]"; //Put both objects in an array of 2 elements
response.getWriter().write(bothJson);

Client side:

$.getJSON("MyServlet", paramenters, function (data){ 
   var data1=data[0], data2=data[1]; //We get both data1 and data2 from the array
   $("h3#name").text(data1["name"]); 
   $("span#level").text(data1["level"]); 
   $("span#college").text(data2["college"]); 
   $("span#department").text(data2["department"]);
});

Hope this helps. Cheers

Answer 2

Wrap them in JSON array:

[ {..}, {..}, {..}]

or, wrap them in another object:

{ "result1":{..}, "result2":{..} }