I am looking for some suggestions and tips regarding Servlet/JSP issue I am trying to solve. I need to access a Servlet variable in JSP page which I am passing through the request.setAttribute, then the variable needs to be passed onto another Servlet through doPost. I am able pass that to the page and can display/print, but I would like it to be not displayed, but just passed on to the Submit button.
Here's my Servlet code:
request.setAttribute("jsession", jsession);
I can do the following and it works, but it's displaying it on the page and the end-user doesn't need to see this:
<select name="jsession">
<c:forEach var="jsession" items="${jsession}">
<option value="${jsession}">${jsession}</option>
</c:forEach>
</select>
But, I am looking to do something like this:
String sess = ${jsession}.
This will be then passed onto the Submit button, maybe I am over-thinking this. Can some veterans point me in the right direction. I appreciate all the effort the veterans take in here. Thank you so much.
If I understand correctly, you just need a hidden field instead of your select box:
<input type="hidden" name="jsession" value="<c:out value="${jsession}"/>"/>
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I'm fairly new to Thymleaf and Spring, and I'm taking a course that is using JSP for client view pages. I couldn't set up JSP using Spring Initializr so I resorted to using Thymeleaf instead (I figured I would end up using Thymeleaf normally anyways)
My question is, how Do i pass form data from one HTML, to another page? I've tried looking at the documentation, and googling around and couldn't find anything.
I have already tried using, a class to set up the Objects, and variables (and i know this is a way of doing it, i'll eventually get to the part of learning how to do that), but I'm just trying to get data from one form to another page.
In JSP you can do this
htmlpageOne.html
<form action="processForm" method="GET">
<input type="text" name="studentID"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
htmlpageTwo.html
<body>
Student ID: ${param.studentID}
</body>
Using JSP you can call the studentID from the past form without having to store it in any Object and having to create any thing else.
I know the data won't really go anywhere and isn't stored, but just for simplicity and demonstration, is there any way to do the same with Thymeleaf?
any help or direction would be very much appreciated
Yes, thymeleaf supports request parameters.
https://www.thymeleaf.org/doc/articles/springmvcaccessdata.html#request-parameters
<body>
Student ID: <span th:text="${param.studentID}" />
</body>
I have the followin question, how will I pass multiple values from one jsp page to another? I have i piece of code here, which works fine, but it only sends one value from one page to another (year):
<form method="post" action="Display data.jsp" name="inputpage" >
<select name="year">
<option value="2010">2010</option>
<option value="2011">2011</option>
</select>
For example if I had another value, for example
String str = "value";
Is it possible to send it using form post method as well? I googled it, and the answer I found included loops and too much code, is there short and simple way of doing it? Many thanks!
When you submit the form all values of the form will be passed, they only need to be inside the form. You can read other values normally by using:
request.getParameter(ParamName)
Take a look at this article for more information
You can send as many variable you want by Form Method.
For sending the value of String Str, assign its value to hidden field as:
<input type="hidden" id="hidden1" value=<c:out value="${variableName}" />
where variableName=str.
Could you use a hidden input inside your form to pass other data using the form post?
<input type='hidden' id='myExtraData' value='hello' />
I would like to have an input 'submit' calling a method from the Java EE java servlet that is responsible for showing the JSP.
<form action="????" method="post">
<input type="image" src="img/icons/cross.png" alt="Remove widget">
</form>
The above form method (another solution is also welcome) should alert the Servlet and include the id of the widget that has to be removed. How can I accomplish something like this, without using scriptlets and with using a MVC set-up.
The servlet included the widgets in the JSP by using the following line of code:
request.setAttribute("widgets", widgets);
Thanks:)
Thanks guys. With the suggestion of Alexandre I managed to fix my problem:)
I am trying to update the existing code of other developer. I am facing the problem of confusing actions.
Existing :
<s:form name="f2" action="delFood.action">
<input type="submit" value="Delete" class="button" onClick="javascript:get_check_value()"/>
My Code to Update:
<input type="file" class="button" id="foodItemFile" name="foodItemFile" value="Browse ..."/>
<input type="submit" class="button" value="AddFood" onClick="callAddFood();"/>
My Javascript:
In my script, I try to submit my action by following code.
document.f2.action = "AddFoodAction.action";
document.f2.submit();
It seems like when I click [AddFood] button, it always call the [delFood.action].
For adding food, I need to check something with javascripts before calling the [AddFoodAction.action] action.
Due to limitations, I can't change the existing code. I can only add new codes to the existing one.
So, Any way to call [AddFoodAction.action] from javascripts without confusing with other actions of the same form ?
Thanks ahead.
Looks like a javascript problem here. Make sure the code
document.f2.action = "AddFoodAction.action";
document.f2.submit();
is executing. Maybe document.f2 is not resolving correctly (maybe more than one form with this name?).
This fiddle shows that it should work. It changes the action of a form inside a onclick handler on a <input type="submit">.
And just a reccomendation, don't do document.f2.submit();. It's an <input type="submit"> so it will submit the form automatically when onclick ends.
Finally, I resolve it by doing like that.
1) There will no direct action in form tag.
<s:form name="f2" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
2) for delete part,
<input type="submit" value="Delete" class="button" onClick="javascript:get_check_value()"/>
call the delete action from the javascript, not directly from form.
document.f2.action = "delFood.action";
3) for add part, like delete part. check necessary things in java scripts and call the add action. It works well.
Another Solution:
There maybe common action directly called from Form. For this approach, just name your button and give value and map those value from action class. And differentiate multiple methods by using those value from one action. I read this article at coderanch and javaSample. Thanks.
I am trying to make a dynamic form using Spring forms. Basically, the form gets a title of learning activity and then there's the a button below it that says, "Add one more Learning Activity". This makes it possible for the user to add one more learning activity. I want him to be able to add as much as he likes.
I haven't tried this before so obviously I encountered errors with the first solution I thought of. I really had a feeling doing what I did will generate an error but just do drive home what I am trying to do, here's the code:
<script language="javascript">
fields = 0;
function addInput() {
document.getElementById('text').innerHTML += "<form:input path='activity[fields++].activity'/><br />";
}
<div id="text">
<form:form commandName="course">
Learning Activity 1
<form:input path="activity[0].activity"/>
<input type="button" value="add activity" onclick="addInput()"/>
<br/><br/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form:form>
<br/><br/>
</div>
You can't use <form:input> within the javascript because is a jsp tag that runs on the server-side.
However, there's nothing magical about how an HTML input gets bound to a field in the Spring command object; it's just based on the name. So in your javascript, add a new
<input type="text" name="activity[1].activity">
(for example -- obviously you'll increment the index).
Another option I've used for more complicated controls is to grab the HTML of the existing control (which was created using the Spring form:input tag) and clone it, replacing the indexes with the incremented number. This gets a lot easier if you use jQuery.
EDITED TO ADD:
One issue that may cause you problems: you're appending your new input box to the end of your outer div ("text"), which means it's not inside the form tags. That won't work.
Is <form:input> a JSP tag? If so, then client-side Javascript to add <form:input> nodes to the DOM will have no effect - since the server-side JSP engine is not interpreting those.
Your Javascript needs to work with raw HTML and DOM, such as adding an <input> element.