Passing Data from JSP to Servlet - java

As described in the title I need to pass data from my JSP page to my servlet.
I load data out of a database into a form of my JSP page.
Now the user should be able to change that data.
So I have to send the changed data back to my servlet to update my database.
Therefore I want to use the doPost() method in my servlet
This is my JSP:
<%# taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<%#page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="content-script-type" content="text/javascript" />
<meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" />
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="de" />
<link href="../resources/css/basic.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<title>Edit Movie</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h2 id="title">Edit Person</h2>
<br></br>
<br></br>
<form id="1" class="appnitro" method="post" action="">
<ul>
<li id="li_1" >
<label class="description" for="element_1">Name</label>
<div>
<input id="element_1" name="element_1" class="element text large" type="text" maxlength="255" value="${requestScope.person.name}"/>
</div>
</li>
<li id="li_2" >
<label class="description" for="element_2">Deparment</label>
<div>
<input id="element_2" name="element_2" class="element text large" type="text" maxlength="255" value="${requestScope.person.department}"/>
</div>
</li>
<li id="li_3" >
<label class="description" for="element_3">Job</label>
<div>
<input id="element_3" name="element_3" class="element text large" type="text" maxlength="255" value="${requestScope.person.job}"/>
</div>
</li>
<li id="li_4" >
<label class="description" for="element_4">Biographie</label>
<div>
<textarea id="element_4" name="element_4" class="element textarea medium">${requestScope.person.biography}</textarea>
</div>
</li>
<li class="buttons">
<input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="652973" />
<input id="saveForm" class="button_text" type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</li>
</ul>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And this is my Servlet without the doPost() method:
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import de.hof.university.spj.model.People;
import de.hof.university.spj.model.PeopleDAO;
public class SinglePersonEditServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private PeopleDAO peopleDao = new PeopleDAO();
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException {
String name = "id";
String value = request.getParameter(name);
int id = Integer.parseInt(value);
People people = peopleDao.getPerson(id);
request.setAttribute("person", people);
RequestDispatcher reqDispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("../jsp/singlePersonEdit.jsp");
reqDispatcher.forward(request, response);
}
}
After the submit button was pressed I want to send the changed
data to my servlet so I can store it in my database.

Why String name = "id";
String value = request.getParameter(name); ? I can't seem to find any input in your JSP that's name = "id" ...
In the servlet, you should have this (for example), this :
String element_1_value = request.getParameter("element_1") ;
Either you forgot the input with id name or I am missing something. In any case, this is what you need to fix within your code.
Not to mention that you forgot inserting the name of the servlet in the action attribute of the form tag, so you had this :
<form id="1" class="appnitro" method="post" action="">
Which should become this :
<form id="1" class="appnitro" method="post" action="SinglePersonEditServlet">
Finally, your action method is "post" (as shown in the above two code lines), in the piece of servlet of your question you work with doGet, you ought to put your code in doPost unless that's done, otherwise it's sufficient to call doGet inside doPost.
I am a beginner myself, so I recognize one when I see it, we all started somewhere and I would recommand you this totu or any good search about "handling form data with servlet".
Note : duplicate of this, check it out for further learning :).
Regards.

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How to know which button is clicked on jsp [duplicate]

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How do I call a specific Java method on a click/submit event of a specific button in JSP?
(4 answers)
Closed 1 year ago.
Jsp with two buttons
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!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>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<body style="background-color:black;">
<p>
<p><input type="button" name="good" value="Pen" onclick="location.href='hello';"> </p>
<p><input type="button" name="good" value="Paper" onclick="location.href='hello';">
</p>
</body>
</html>
This is the servlet
package pack.exp;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.DatastoreService;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.DatastoreServiceFactory;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Entity;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.EntityNotFoundException;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Key;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.KeyFactory;
#SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet
{
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws
IOException
{
String val=req.getParameter("good");
if("Pen".equals(val))
{
resp.setContentType("text/plain");
resp.getWriter().println("Pen was clicked" );
}
else if("Paper".equals(val))
{
resp.setContentType("text/plain");
resp.getWriter().println("Paper was clicked");
}
}
}
My code is not giving the correct output on clicking the buttons. I want when i click Pen then it should enter in if() and print the text and i want same for the paper button.
write this code in jsp, it will be helpful to you
<html>
<body style="background-color:black;">
<p><form method="post" action="hello">
<p><input type="submit" name="good" value="Pen" > </p>
<p><input type="submit" name="good" value="Paper" >
</p></form>
</body>
</html>
Add two hidden field.
<form id="my form" >
<input type="hidden" name="myPen" />
<input type="hidden" name="myPaper" />
<input type="button" name="good" value="pen" on click="{document.myform.mypen.value=this.value;location.href='hello';}"
<input type="button" name="good" value="paper" on click=" {document. myform. mypaper.value=this.value;location. href='hello';}" />
</form>
In Servlet
String val=req.getParameter('mypen');
String val1=req.getParameter("mypaper");
At time there is only one value other is null. You can do this with null check.
Use jQuery to do your task.
Change your html code to these lines of code.
<form method="post" action="#" name="Form" id="Form" >
<input type="button" value="one" id="One"/>
<input type="button" value="two" id="Two"/>
</form>
And add these lines in your script
$('input:button').click(function() {
alert($(this).val());
var value=$(this).val();
var url='hello?good=';
url+=value;
$("#Form").attr("action",url);
$("#Form").submit();
});
You can use jQuery 1.7.1 and above.
Encode the button's value into button's name.
In HTML:
<p><input type="button" name="good:Pen" onclick="location.href='hello';"> </p>
<p><input type="button" name="good:Paper" onclick="location.href='hello';">
In servlet: iterate over all parameters, look for parameter which startsWith("good") and if yes, subtrack the prefix good:. If there are no other submit buttons in your page, you can simply name your buttons just Pen and Paper and check the presence of these parameters as well. There is no javascript needed for this task.

JSP requestDispacthing

I have two JSP pages. In first page I have given fields to fill personal details and I have written request.getRequestDispatcher("second.jsp") and forwarded the the request. But When I run the "first.jsp" on server in eclipse, it is directly going to "second.jsp" but in URL it is shopwing "first.jsp". What might be the problem?
First.jsp
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!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>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<br>
<h2>Enter Your Personal Details</h2>
<form action="personal.jsp" method="get">
<table>
<tr><td>Name: </td><td> <input type="text" name="name" /><br /><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email-ID: </td><td><input type="text" name="email" /><br /><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Date Of Birth:</td><td><input type="text" name="dob" /><br /><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Password: </td><td><input type="text" name="pass" /><br /><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Age: </td><td><input type="text" name="age" /><br /><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="submit" /></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
<%!
String uname=null,pass=null,email=null;
String age=null,dob = null;
%>
<%
uname= request.getParameter("name");
session.setAttribute("username",uname);
pass= request.getParameter("pass");
session.setAttribute("password",pass);
age = request.getParameter("age");
session.setAttribute("age",age);
email = request.getParameter("email");
session.setAttribute("email",email);
dob = request.getParameter("dob");
session.setAttribute("dob",dob);
response.sendRedirect("academic.jsp");
%>
</body>
</html>
Second.jsp
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!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>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<br>
<h2>Enter Your Academic Details</h2>
<form action="academic.jsp" method="get">
<table><tr><td>
MID: </td><td> <input type="text" name="mid" /><br /><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Marks: </td><td> <input type="text" name="marks" /><br /><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Salary: </td><td><input type="text" name="salary" /><br /><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Stream:</td><td><select name="stream"><option>Java</option><option>dotNET</option><option>Testing</option></select><br /><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="submit" /></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
<%
out.println(session.getAttribute("name"));
%>
</body>
</html>
You need to do response.sendRedirect() to make the effect in url.
request#forward
Silently passes the control to your another resource,And happens on server side,browser doesn't know about it.
Forward():
For a RequestDispatcher obtained via getRequestDispatcher(), the ServletRequest object has its path elements and parameters adjusted to match the path of the target resource.
sendRedirect()
Sends a temporary redirect response to the client using the specified redirect location URL and clears the buffer.
Highlighting Luggis comment,that move your business logic to Controller and try to avoid scriplets too if possible.
Though,it is not recommended,If you want to change the URL and still want to access the data in second page,one possibility is that put data in session and access in second jsp.
The problem is generated because you have a direct call of forward method in a scriptlet, this might look like this
request.getRequestDispatcher("second.jsp").forward(request, response);
By your question edit, this is generating the problem:
response.sendRedirect("academic.jsp");
Note that using scriptlets is highly discouraged.
Make sure all your data processing and navigation is handled in a Servlet or another controller classes provided by a MVC framework like JSF managed beans or Spring MVC #Controller decorated classes.
More info:
How to avoid Java code in JSP files?
StackOverflow's Servlet wiki, here you can find a real world basic example about how to handle data processing and manipulation from a view to a servlet and then navigating to another view.
The actual problem lies in first.jsp line response.sendRedirect("academic.jsp"); which is inside a JSP Declaration and not JSP Scriptlet, as per the doc variables and methods in JSP declarations become declarations in the JSP page’s servlet class which explains why when you hit the first.jsp its getting redirected to another page without any action and as other suggested its not advisable to use JSP scriptlets, or declarations in your JSP.

Can't get parameter from the page via servlet

It should be simple, but i have a problem,
This is my *.jsp file
<html>
<head>
<title>Edit DataBase data</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>
<body>
<hr size="2"/>
<h2>id in DB = ?</h2>
<p>id:<input type="text" name="id" size="20" value="sdfs"></p>
<p>
<form action="/web/save" method="POST">
<input class="button" type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
servlet looks like this
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
String id = request.getParameter("id")
System.out.println("ID=" + id);
}
but in output ID=null
servlet was loaded by the button click on the server
You need to put the input tag in between the form tags.
For the code you put here
<form action="" method="POST">
is correct.
Check, you might have put
<form action="" method="GET">

jquery file upload with spring mvc : 400 bad request

I coded a file upload with SpringMVC, following the manual example (LINK) and it works fine.
Then, I changed the client to use jQuery file upload
http://blueimp.github.com/jQuery-File-Upload/
in order to have a more powerful client (with drag and drop).
I downloaded the widget and implemented a jsp with it.
But it does not work. The browser receives a response 400 (bad request) and no exception is throw with tomcat7.
I saw a difference in the request:
with the working spring mvc doc exemple the request look like (firebug) :
-----------------------------26989305212543489571047641949 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name"
-----------------------------26989305212543489571047641949 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="content.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain hello
-----------------------------26989305212543489571047641949--
and for the non working jsp with jQuery fileupload default implementation the request in firebug looks like :
-----------------------------205805102810633831841397435868 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="files"; filename="content.txt" Content-Type: text/plain hello
-----------------------------205805102810633831841397435868--
So, with the jQuery non working version, more is sent to the server. Some kind of extra meta-data. Is that the problem or am i searching in the wrong way? I’m no expert at all in file upload / multipart.
Thanks for your help.
Spring v3.1.2
Tomcat v7.0
jQuery 1.8
The project use sitemesh (I don't think it makes a difference but...)
The controller code
import java.io.IOException;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
#Controller
public class FileUploadController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/form", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String handleFormUpload(#RequestParam(value="name",required=false) String name,
#RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file) throws IOException {
if (!file.isEmpty()) {
byte[] bytes = file.getBytes();
// store the bytes somewhere
return "redirect:home";
} else {
return "redirect:uploadFailure";
}
System.out.println(file.length);
return "home";
}
}
working jsp:
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Upload a file please</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Please upload a file</h1>
<form method="post" action="form" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="text" name="name"/>
<input type="file" name="file"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Non working jsp (with jQuery) :
<%# taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%# taglib uri="http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/decorator"
prefix="decorator"%>
<%# taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<!DOCTYPE html >
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/ReformYourCountry/css/test-style.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/ReformYourCountry/css/template.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/ReformYourCountry/css/content.css" />
<!-- Shim to make HTML5 elements usable in older Internet Explorer versions -->
<!--[if lt IE 9]><script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script><![endif]-->
<!-- for imageupload page -->
<!-- Force latest IE rendering engine or ChromeFrame if installed -->
<!--[if IE]><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1"><![endif]-->
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>jQuery File Upload Demo</title>
<meta name="description" content="File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bar and preview images for jQuery. Supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads. Works with any server-side platform (Google App Engine, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, etc.) that supports standard HTML form file uploads.">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<!-- jQuery UI styles -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.18/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" id="theme">
<!-- jQuery Image Gallery styles -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://blueimp.github.com/jQuery-Image-Gallery/css/jquery.image-gallery.min.css">
<!-- CSS to style the file input field as button and adjust the jQuery UI progress bars -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/jquery.fileupload-ui.css">
<!-- Generic page styles -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
<!-- Shim to make HTML5 elements usable in older Internet Explorer versions -->
<!--[if lt IE 9]><script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script><![endif]-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- The file upload form used as target for the file upload widget -->
<form id="fileupload" action="form" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<!-- The fileupload-buttonbar contains buttons to add/delete files and start/cancel the upload -->
<div class="row fileupload-buttonbar">
<div class="span7">
<!-- The fileinput-button span is used to style the file input field as button -->
<span class="btn btn-success fileinput-button">
<i class="icon-plus icon-white"></i>
<span>Add files...</span>
<input type="file" name="files" multiple>
</span>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary start">
<i class="icon-upload icon-white"></i>
<span>Start upload</span>
</button>
<button type="reset" class="btn btn-warning cancel">
<i class="icon-ban-circle icon-white"></i>
<span>Cancel upload</span>
</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-danger delete">
<i class="icon-trash icon-white"></i>
<span>Delete</span>
</button>
<input type="checkbox" class="toggle">
</div>
<!-- The global progress information -->
<div class="span5 fileupload-progress fade">
<!-- The global progress bar -->
<div class="progress progress-success progress-striped active" role="progressbar" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100">
<div class="bar" style="width:0%;"></div>
</div>
<!-- The extended global progress information -->
<div class="progress-extended"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- The loading indicator is shown during file processing -->
<div class="fileupload-loading"></div>
<br>
<!-- The table listing the files available for upload/download -->
<table role="presentation" class="table table-striped"><tbody class="files" data-toggle="modal-gallery" data-target="#modal-gallery"></tbody></table>
</form>
<!-- The template to display files available for upload -->
<script id="template-upload" type="text/x-tmpl">
{% for (var i=0, file; file=o.files[i]; i++) { %}
<tr class="template-upload fade">
<td class="preview"><span class="fade"></span></td>
<td class="name"><span>{%=file.name%}</span></td>
<td class="size"><span>{%=o.formatFileSize(file.size)%}</span></td>
{% if (file.error) { %}
<td class="error" colspan="2"><span class="label label-important">{%=locale.fileupload.error%}</span> {%=locale.fileupload.errors[file.error] || file.error%}</td>
{% } else if (o.files.valid && !i) { %}
<td>
<div class="progress progress-success progress-striped active" role="progressbar" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100" aria-valuenow="0"><div class="bar" style="width:0%;"></div></div>
</td>
<td class="start">{% if (!o.options.autoUpload) { %}
<button class="btn btn-primary">
<i class="icon-upload icon-white"></i>
<span>{%=locale.fileupload.start%}</span>
</button>
{% } %}</td>
{% } else { %}
<td colspan="2"></td>
{% } %}
<td class="cancel">{% if (!i) { %}
<button class="btn btn-warning">
<i class="icon-ban-circle icon-white"></i>
<span>{%=locale.fileupload.cancel%}</span>
</button>
{% } %}</td>
</tr>
{% } %}
</script>
<!-- The template to display files available for download -->
<script id="template-download" type="text/x-tmpl">
{% for (var i=0, file; file=o.files[i]; i++) { %}
<tr class="template-download fade">
{% if (file.error) { %}
<td></td>
<td class="name"><span>{%=file.name%}</span></td>
<td class="size"><span>{%=o.formatFileSize(file.size)%}</span></td>
<td class="error" colspan="2"><span class="label label-important">{%=locale.fileupload.error%}</span> {%=locale.fileupload.errors[file.error] || file.error%}</td>
{% } else { %}
<td class="preview">{% if (file.thumbnail_url) { %}
<img src="{%=file.thumbnail_url%}">
{% } %}</td>
<td class="name">
{%=file.name%}
</td>
<td class="size"><span>{%=o.formatFileSize(file.size)%}</span></td>
<td colspan="2"></td>
{% } %}
<td class="delete">
<button class="btn btn-danger" data-type="{%=file.delete_type%}" data-url="{%=file.delete_url%}">
<i class="icon-trash icon-white"></i>
<span>{%=locale.fileupload.destroy%}</span>
</button>
<input type="checkbox" name="delete" value="1">
</td>
</tr>
{% } %}
</script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.23/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<!-- The Templates plugin is included to render the upload/download listings -->
<script src="http://blueimp.github.com/JavaScript-Templates/tmpl.min.js"></script>
<!-- The Load Image plugin is included for the preview images and image resizing functionality -->
<script src="http://blueimp.github.com/JavaScript-Load-Image/load-image.min.js"></script>
<!-- The Canvas to Blob plugin is included for image resizing functionality -->
<script src="http://blueimp.github.com/JavaScript-Canvas-to-Blob/canvas-to-blob.min.js"></script>
<!-- jQuery Image Gallery -->
<script src="http://blueimp.github.com/jQuery-Image-Gallery/js/jquery.image-gallery.min.js"></script>
<!-- The Iframe Transport is required for browsers without support for XHR file uploads -->
<script src="js/jquery.iframe-transport.js"></script>
<!-- The basic File Upload plugin -->
<script src="js/jquery.fileupload.js"></script>
<!-- The File Upload file processing plugin -->
<script src="js/jquery.fileupload-fp.js"></script>
<!-- The File Upload user interface plugin -->
<script src="js/jquery.fileupload-ui.js"></script>
<!-- The File Upload jQuery UI plugin -->
<script src="js/jquery.fileupload-jui.js"></script>
<!-- The localization script -->
<script src="js/locale.js"></script>
<!-- The main application script -->
<script src="js/main.js"></script>
<!-- The XDomainRequest Transport is included for cross-domain file deletion for IE8+ -->
<!--[if gte IE 8]><script src="js/cors/jquery.xdr-transport.js"></script><![endif]-->
</body>
</html>
I've used the jQuery File Upload widget with Spring MVC with controller code like the following (note there is a dependency on apache commons fileupload for handing the multipart content):
#RequestMapping(value="/project/file", method=POST)
public void addFile(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
if (!ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request)) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Request is not multipart, please 'multipart/form-data' enctype for your form.");
}
ServletFileUpload uploadHandler = new ServletFileUpload(new DiskFileItemFactory());
try {
List<FileItem> items = uploadHandler.parseRequest(request);
for (FileItem item : items) {
if (!item.isFormField()) {
byte [] fileBytes = item.get();
}
} catch(FileUploadException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
with Jer's help i maked this working method:
#RequestMapping(value="imageuploadsubmit", method=RequestMethod.POST)
public void addFile(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
if (!ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request)) {
if (!(request instanceof DefaultMultipartHttpServletRequest)){
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Request is not multipart, please 'multipart/form-data' enctype for your form.");
}
DefaultMultipartHttpServletRequest dmhsRequest = (DefaultMultipartHttpServletRequest) request ;
MultipartFile multipartFile = (MultipartFile) dmhsRequest.getFile("image");
//make traitment like a File object
}

How do I pre-fill text fields in a form with info from a database in a .jsp?

I'm trying to create a form that updates an entry in a MySQL database. The table is a users table that contains various fields related to the user. I need this page to work as an update form that takes a username that is passed to it via the previous page and pre-fills the text fields with the existing data. It's a model one application that uses a presentation, transport, and data layer. The transport layer is User.java and the data layer (that interacts with the database) is UserDB.java.
Here's the code, everything is functional except the pre-filling.
UPDATE: I've edited to reflect the changes from the answers below, I also want to note that "UserDB.getUsers()" returns an ArrayList.
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" import="java.util.ArrayList,beans.*,data.*"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<%
//get parameters from the request
String userName = request.getParameter("userName");
ArrayList userList = UserDB.getUsers(userName);
User user = userList.get(0);
%>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css" type="text/css" />
<title>User Admin</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main">
<h1>Update User</h1>
<h3>User Info</h3>
<hr>
<div id="content">
<form action="updateUser.jsp" method="get">
<p>User Name<br>
<input type="text" name="userName" size="20" value="<%=userName%>"/>
</p>
<p>Password<br>
<input type="text" name="password" size="20" value="<%=user.getPassword()%>"/>
</p>
<p>First Name<br>
<input type="text" name="firstName" size="20" value="<%=user.getFirstName()%>"/>
</p>
<p>Last Name<br>
<input type="text" name="lastName" size="20" value="<%=user.getLastName()%>"/>
</p>
<p>Email Address<br>
<input type="text" name="email" size="20" value="<%=user.getEmail()%>"/>
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Commit Update">
</p>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I know I'm doing something wrong with the "user" object, but I'm overlooking it.
you are passing the username as a string
<%
//get parameters from the request
String userName = request.getParameter("userName");
user = UserDB.getUsers("userName");
//it should be (with out the quotes
user = UserDB.getUsers(userName);
%>
The "username" should have the quotes removed. Also, where are you declaring user's type?
ie.
User user = ....getUser..

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