HTML + Javascript Renderer that outputs HTML or plaintext? - java

If I use:
String plain = Html.fromHtml(html).toString;
to render simple 'html' that contains:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Google</title>
</head>
<body>any plain vanila HTML goes here
</body>
All is nice and dandy.
But what if that page contains tons of Javascript code that is nicely rendered by all web browsers but isn't available to me?
Is there a renderer that takes care of the Javascript as well, to output HTML or plaintext, that isn't necessarily going to a visual display?
(I know about WebView but my understanding that I can't really access its output. Or can I?)

Is there a renderer that takes care of the Javascript as well, to output HTML or plaintext, that isn't necessarily going to a visual display?
WebView or bust.
(I know about WebView but my understanding that I can't really access its output. Or can I?)
Create a Java object to receive your output
Add that Java object to the WebView via addJavascriptInterface()
Use loadUrl("javascript:...") on the WebView to invoke a hunk of Javascript that gathers your information and calls a method on your Java object

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Struts2 - pass enye character from jsp to struts 2 action class properly

I have a webapp built using Struts2, with Tomcat 7 as application server and MySQL database as backend. Now i pass some string from my jsp file using jquery ajax but this string contains special characters (ñ - enye). When i alert it before passing to the class via jquery ajax, it displays fine but when i receive it in the java class, it displays like ñ . I need the string to be as exact as possible as i am querying the mysql database with an entry similar to the string.
All jsp pages have <%#page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%> and <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> in head as well as the jquery contentType contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8'.
What could be the possible solution to this? Thanks for your reply. Here are the screenshots by the way. Thanks for your help :)
Luckily found the answer within StackOverflow. Thanks guys, you're the best :)
How to determine if a String contains invalid encoded characters

get output of javascript on android

I have this javascript code:
<html>
<head>
<script>
for(i=0;i<6;i++)
{
document.write("my number is "+ i );
}
</script>
</head>
</html>
I want to take the output of this javascript code and save in String in android.
like this:
my number is 0my number is 1my number is 2my number is 3my number is 4my number is 5
How can i do this in android?
There are a lof of topic already opened/answered for this question.
Check these links
using javascript in android webview
Android Calling JavaScript functions in WebView
Basic is binding your WebView injecting a javascript into the webpage, then you can call your java function in webpage with normal javascript.

Android preferences from settings menu - for phonegap developer

I've never written any single line in Java and I doesn't know much about the Java world, so when I hear that I can create android apps using phonegap I was very happy. But as I discovered later, I cannot escape from Java if I want to do something more.
I want to create settings page for my application, I found phongeap extension that allows me to read the phonegap applications settings but to use it I must create the settings GUI which can be done via XML and some Java. I found good tutorial to do it but since I'm not Java developer I cannot understand much from it.
Can someone tell me where to put all this Java and XML stuff to simply get the settings GUI working in phonegap application. I mean what files I need, with what content and in what directories.
With phonegap you can escape all the java codes, as you'll see in the following code, you wont need any java code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Cordova Menu Button Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova-2.3.0.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
// Call onDeviceReady when Cordova is loaded.
// At this point, the document has loaded but cordova-2.3.0.js has not.
// When Cordova is loaded and talking with the native device,
// it will call the event `deviceready`.
function onLoad() {
document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
}
// Cordova is loaded and it is now safe to make calls Cordova methods
function onDeviceReady() {
// Register the event listener
document.addEventListener("menubutton", onMenuKeyDown, false);
}
// Handle the menu button
function onMenuKeyDown() { alert("menu btn pressed");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="onLoad()">
</body>
</html>
Dont use plugins for this feature, just go to the main documentation.
Also you may find the other events like:
deviceready
pause
resume
online
offline
backbutton
batterycritical
batterylow
batterystatus
menubutton
searchbutton
startcallbutton
endcallbutton
volumedownbutton
volumeupbutton

How To Stop Tomcat/Java Wrapping My Output

I've got a JSP page that I want to return a fragment of HTML. The trouble is that whenever I request the JSP, something is attempting to make the HTML more valid by wrapping <html> tags around it. I don't want it to do this though as it will be used in a variety of other places.
For an example, the following JSP:
<%# taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<script src="${applicationConfig.javascriptUrl}update.js" language="javascript" type="text/javascript"></script>
<p>Wibble</p>
Will result in the following HTML:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head></head><script src="http://fisher.mycompany.com:8080/my-app/includes/js/update.js" language="javascript" type="text/javascript"></script>
<p>Wibble</p></html>
I really don't want those <html> & <head> tags there and would like to get rid of them but have no idea where this is happening to turn it off. Does anyone have any clues?
* Edit *
To give a little more information on what I am trying to achieve. This JSP will check a variety of things and form a piece of HTML. This HTML can then be included into other applications via a web service call.
Servlets can return any content type including javascript and images, not just HTML. Tomcat should not wrap jsps in extraneous tags. I put the snippet you suggested in a jsp, minus the taglib which I don't have set up, and got back exactly the HTML that I put in.
Can you tell us more about your environment? Are you using tomcat? Are you using some kind of framework?
Servlets are HTML factories. They expect to send a valid HTML page down to a browser to be rendered. You can't "get rid of it" without breaking the whole model.
Your original concept of sending a snippet that's "used in a variety of other places" is flawed. You sound like to want to set some data that might be used in other places - that's valid - but I don't see how wrapping it in markup matters.
Only the JSP should be using the marked up data. JSPs are all about display. I'd rethink what you're doing and attack how you want to share the data, not the markup.
One approach it might work,
Create HTML files as you required valid HTML,
and use servlet to returns response, servlet should read HMTL File and return
its contents as String, like XML respones from servlet
hopes thats helps

Getting Started With GWT

I have been looking into the GWT for a couple of days now and I have some confusion.
I come from a PHP/JSP background so when I wanted to create a website that had multiple pages I would just create a PHP page for each page and then let the user select what to view.
Now that I am looking into GWT I don't really understand how this is done?
Lets say I would like my site to have three pages (index.html, help.html, contact.html), when a GWT app is loaded the onModuleLoad() method is called. How would I then code each separate pages widgets then using only this one method?
Looking at the example GWT application that is created in Eclipse, A single HTML page is created. How would I create an application with multiple pages if there is only a single onModuleLoad() method?
GWT can be used in a Web 2.0, client-side application way as mentioned by Chris Lercher and nvcleemp or you can use it in conjunction with a more traditional page view/reload model. If you simply want to inject DHTML functionality into existing, static pages, you can look for specific element id's for injecting into or you could read a javascript embedded configuration variable when onModuleLoad() is called to determine what state/mode you are in and what type of GWT client functionality you should be running.
For example, using the different injection points:
page 1:
<html>
<head>
...
<script type="text/javascript" src="yourmodule.nocache.js"></script>
...
</head>
<body>
...
<div id="injectMode1"></div>
...
</body>
</html>
page 2:
<html>
<head>
...
<script type="text/javascript" src="yourmodule.nocache.js"></script>
...
</head>
<body>
...
<div id="injectMode2"></div>
...
</body>
</html>
Your GWT EntryPoint:
#Override
public void onModuleLoad() {
final Panel mode1 = RootPanel.get("injectionMode1");
if (mode1 != null) {
mode1.add(new ModeOneWidget());
}
final Panel mode2 = RootPanel.get("injectionMode2");
if (mode2 != null) {
mode2.add(new ModeTwoWidget());
}
}
EDIT:
Using javascript variables, on each page that you want to embed GWT functionality you can do something similar to:
page foo:
<html>
<head>
...
<script type='text/javascript'>
var appMode="mode1";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yourmodule.nocache.js"></script>
...
</head>
...
Your GWT EntryPoint:
private static final native String getAppMode()/*-{
return $wnd.appMode;
}-*/;
#Override
public void onModuleLoad() {
String appMode = getAppMode();
if(appMode != null){
if(appMode.equals(MODE1)){
...
}
...
}
}
GWT uses JavaScript to modify the page content. So you don't load a new page [*].
With GWT, you don't need the server to create dynamic HTML content anymore. It's created dynamically on the client side (using static JavaScript code). When you need to load something from the server, you just load data objects (in JSON or XML format, or using GWT-RPC). The client may then use this data to build HTML snippets (to set innerHTML) or DOM objects to modify the browser's DOM tree.
With GWT, you don't have to build these snippets manually: You can use Widgets and UiBinder (client side HTML templating, enhanced with GWT tags and dynamic parameters).
[*] There are some special cases (e.g. if you have a https login page, whereas the rest of the app might use http), where you do load a new page, but that means either that your other page doesn't use GWT at all, or that you create a separate GWT module for it. Of course you can share some of the Java classes between these modules.
GWT is used to build applications like e.g. Google Reader or Gmail: this means that there is just 'one' page. You could have a 'window' inside that page that shows the contact information and a 'window' that shows the help information. When the users clicks the corresponding link you show that 'window'

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