Read applet param with unknown name

Question

To read an applet param, there's the method "String getParameter(String name). For using this method I need to know the parameters name.
Does anybody know a way to read all params, without knowing all possible
param names?
Thanks for any help.
Marko M�ller

Answer 1

Yikes ... not sure. Perhaps you could try to indicate what you are doing and implement it an alternate way. I have gotten around this in the past using various tricks. One of them (briefly) is to use a generic parameter accumulator:
<param NAME="keyValue0" VALUE="pieWedge1|15.43">
<param NAME="keyValue1" VALUE="pieWedge2|10.57">
<param NAME="keyValue2" VALUE="pieWedge3|12.00">
<param NAME="keyValue3" VALUE="pieWedge4|12.00">
<param NAME="keyValue4" VALUE="pieWedge5|25.00">
<param NAME="keyValue5" VALUE="pieWedge6|50.00">
Then you can just loop through and do
.getParameter("keyValue" + String.ValueOf(i));
and pick out all of the parameters. I pass each of the key value parameters to a decoupler, which parses out based on my "|" delimeter, and adds the parameters to a hashtable keyed on the key portion of the keyvalue pair, for easy access.
In essense, you can do this with ALL of your dynamic parameters. I tend to use logical groupings myself. That is you can separate them by using keyValue#, option#, etc so that you can differentiate various sets of dynamic parameters to your applet.
Hope this helps. If you find another way of grabbing all parameters, I would like to see what you come up with.