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So in my Servlet I have the following:
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException {
resp.setContentType("text/html");
req.setAttribute("colNames","ka");
req.setAttribute("items", new String[]{});
//System.out.println(req.getAttribute("colNames"));
req.getRequestDispatcher("/index.jsp").forward(req,resp);
}
My Servlet:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ page isELIgnored="false"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>NewGem OrderInfo</title>
<script src="sorttable.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<%= request.getAttribute("colNames") %>
<table id="table" class="sortable">
<tr>
<c:forEach items="${param.colNames}" var="col">
<td>${col}</td>
</c:forEach>
</tr>
<c:forEach items="${param.items}" var="row">
<tr>
<c:forEach items="${row.elements()}" var="value">
<td>${value}</td>
</c:forEach>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>
</body>
</html>
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<display-name>EntityDumpServlet</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>dump</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>EntityDumpServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
com.jpmorgan.d1.ptg.web.EntityDumpServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>EntityDumpServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/dump</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
So I'm just running the get, have only this servlet nothing else.
I know that I should use JSTL and I am, but this was my way of checking that it was not a JSTL problem but some what a java problem. Anyone have any ideas?
PS: If I do just <%= request %> I get org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade@58c3fbeb so the problem is not in not casting the result to String.
And if I do on the servlet System.out.println(req); I get org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade@4ac37ce2, which means for some reason the request passed and received are different?
Result: It turned out that for some reason the IDE is doing some weird stuff and introduced this problem in the forwarding. When I deployed it on with maven compiled WAR file on the tomcat it worked okay.
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Element.getAttribute() The getAttribute() method of the Element interface returns the value of a specified attribute on the element. If the given attribute does not exist, the value returned will either be null or "" (the empty string); see Non-existing attributes for details.
1) First create data at the server side and pass it to a JSP. Here a list of student objects in a servlet will be created and pass it to a JSP using setAttribute(). 2) Next, the JSP will retrieve the sent data using getAttribute(). 3) Finally, the JSP will display the data retrieved, in a tabular form.
getParameter() returns http request parameters. Those passed from the client to the server. getAttribute() is for server-side usage only - you fill the request with attributes that you can use within the same request. For example - you set an attribute in a servlet, and read it from a JSP.
getAttribute. Returns the value of the named attribute as an Object , or null if no attribute of the given name exists. Attributes can be set two ways. The servlet container may set attributes to make available custom information about a request.
You are not typecasting it to String.
request.getAttribute() will return an Object.
Try using this and see if it works:
String value = (String)request.getAttribute("colnames");
Or
<%= (String)request.getAttribute("colNames") %>
Why are you using forEach here? You just need to display a String right?
Also, shouldn't var="col" be ------> var = "colNames"
<tr>
<c:forEach items="${param.colNames}" var="col">
<td>${col}</td>
</c:forEach>
</tr>
You need to use,
request.getSession().setAttribute("colNames",yourObject);
To persist it through the request/response and then pull it out of the session on your JSP page.
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