Return value of request.getParameter()

Is the value returned by request.getParameter() always decoded? I tested with Tomcat on Firefox/IE and it looks like the answer is yes, although I don't find any relevant information in the Servlet API doc.
So no need to use URLDecode to decode parameter values?

Thanks man. Got it.

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Get all values from request.getParameter

In ASP, I can do something like that...
For each item in Request.Form
Response.write "Name is:" & item & " value is:" & Request(item)
Next
How about in JSP? How do i get the names and values of the form using a loop?

You can use request.getParameterNames() which will return an enumeration, then you can iterate through the enumeration and use request.getParameterValue(String paramName) method to get the values.

Not able to get the full value from request.getParameter()

hi all,
Iam giving a text input value as" Analysis and tracking" in one jsp form.
while fetching and assigning the value to another variable using request.getparameter , iam getting only the text "Analysis" , the space after it were ignored andnt displaying it.
Help me in solving this.
thanx
Balaji

I think you are code is something like this
<input name="xyz" type="text" value=<%=variable%>>
HTML ignores spaces. Therefore you are only getting Analysis, the first word, when your browser encounters the first space it ignores whatever is present after that.
One way of overcoming this is putting double quotes around the text value
<input name="xyz" type="text" value=<% out.println("\"" + variable + "\""); %>
Thanks.

How to get Int value from request.getParameter()?

Hi all,
I have a integer value which is passed from one page to another page.
i am geting this value in the next page using
request.getParameter().
Eg.
Suppose value of "i" in page1 is 32, i pass this as hidden variable to next page.
<input type="hidden" Value="<%=i%>" NAME="limit">
in page2, i fethch this value to a variable by name "limit"
String limit=request.getParameter("limit");
but, since value stored in limit is int, i can't assign it to string.
i can't use request.getParameter for int values.
How to solve my problem.
I know it is simple,
Pls. help me
Regards
ASh
String limit=request.getParameter("limit");

String limitSTR = request.getParameter("limit");
int limit = -1;
if (limitSTR != null) limit = Integer.parseInt(limitSTR);

How to change the value of request.getParameter("submit")

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="postLeave" />
When I click on the submit button, control goes to a servlet file, where I can access the value of submit using request.getParameter("submit") which is the postLeave here. After accessing this value I want to change it's value or unset the "submit" in the same file.....
Like in php we can do this easily using unset($_POST['submit']) ........ but how can I do this in java servlet....? Is there any method to do this...........? If not, then can anybody tell me the alternative solution for this.
Deepak Jain
[email protected]

tschodt wrote:
djain29 wrote:
Is there any alternative solution?Retrieve all request parameters
http://download.oracle.com/javaee/1.4/api/javax/servlet/ServletRequest.html#getParameterMap%28%29
store in a new HashMap (which will be mutable)
do all your operations on your new local copy of the request parameters.
If you are in a filter have a look at
http://download.oracle.com/javaee/1.4/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequestWrapper.html
Fetching all parameters to a HashMap of course works but it might be a little over the top; fetching the one parameter that should be mutable to a local bean which you then use everywhere is another valid option, one that most web frameworks actually support by providing mapping services of request parameters to bean properties.

In JSP pages request.getParameter returns null

There are two jsp's,the first JSP has 1 textbox inside the form tag.We input the values in the textbox and submit.
Code :Ist jsp
<BODY>
<HEAD>
function validate()
document.add.submit();
</HEAD>
<FORM name="add" method="post" action=/dir/two.jsp" >
<TABLE width="37%" border="0" align="center" class="c4f3">
<TR>
<TD class="c4">Rating</TD>
<TD><input type=text name="rating"></TD?
</TR>
<TR>
<TD align=center><INPUT type="button" name="submitadd" value="Submit" onClick="validate()" </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM>
</BODY>
After the submit it goes to the 2nd JSP page .
code:2nd Jsp
<%
String Rating=request.getParameter("rating");
out.println(" Rating "+Rating);
%>
The 2nd JSP pages gets the values by request.getParameter.When I use method='post' in Ist JSP ,even if I enter values in the textbox, it prints null. But when I give method="get" , it prints the value.
Pls let me know if there is any problem in the code or its the problem due to webserver configuration.Also suggest the solution to over come this problem.
Thanks

If I'am right you have misplaced the opening body-tag of your first jsp-page.
The opening body-tag should follow after the closing head tag .
The structure of your HTML-code should look like this:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Unable get complete filepath from jsp page using request.getParameter()

Hey all,
i am actually trying to get the selected file path value using request.getParameter into the servlet where i will read the (csv or txt) file but i dont get the full path but only the file name(test.txt) not the complete path(C:\\Temp\\test.txt) i selected in JSP page using browse file.
Output :
FILE NAME : TEST
FILE PATH : test.txt
Error : java.io.FileNotFoundException: test.txt (The system cannot find the file specified)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
at java.io.FileReader.<init>(FileReader.java:55)
at com.test.TestServlet.processRequest(TestServlet.java:39)
at com.test.TestServlet.doPost(TestServlet.java:75)
JSP CODE:
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!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=UTF-8">
<title>DEMO SERVLET</title>
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Hello World!</h2>
<form name="myform" action="TestServlet" method="POST"
FILE NAME : <input type="text" name="filename" value="" size="25" /><br><br>
FILE SELECT : <input type="file" name="myfile" value="" width="25" /><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Servlet Code :
protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException, FileNotFoundException {
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
try {
String filename = request.getParameter("filename");
out.println(filename);
String filepath = request.getParameter("myfile");
out.println(filepath);
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet TestServlet</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<h1>Servlet TestServlet at " + request.getContextPath() + "</h1>");
if (filepath != null) {
File f = new File(filepath);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(f));
String strLine;
String[] tokens;
while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
tokens = strLine.split(",");
for (int i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++) {
out.println("<h1>Servlet TestServlet at " + tokens[i] + "</h1>");
out.println("----------------");
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
} finally {
out.close();
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
processRequest(request, response);
Needed Output :
FILE NAME : TEST
FILE PATH : C:\\Temp\\test.txt
Any suggestions Plz??

As the [HTML specification|http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html] states, you should be setting the enctype to multipart/form-data to be able to upload files to the server. In the server side, you need to process the multipart/form-data binary stream by parsing the HttpServletRequest#getInputStream(). It is a lot of work to get it to work flawlessly. There are 3rd party API's around which can do that for you, such as [Apache Commons FileUpload|http://commons.apache.org/fileupload] (carefully read the User Guide how to use it).
You can also consider to use a Filter which makes use of the FileUpload API to preprocess the request so that you can continue writing the servlet code as usual. Here is an example: [http://balusc.blogspot.com/2007/11/multipartfilter.html].

Null value in Session vars and request.getParameter

We're migrating our application from iPlanet.
          Under iPlanet, when we looped through a resultset and set the values to
          session variables - it worked fine, even when a resultset value was null,
          but in WebLogic, I get the following error:
          java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: key/value is null
          Is there anyway to "turn this off" so it behaves like iPlanet?
          My second question is that we have many JSP's that check to see if a
          parameter is null in javascript:
          Here's the code:
          function onLoad() {
          document.form.elements[0].focus();
          // Check to see if the user is coming from a shortcut
          var imageName = "<%=request.getParameter("imageName")%>";
          if (imageName == "null") {
          selectTop("<%=select_image%>");
          } else {
          selectTop(imageName);
          <% if (tableIndex == 2) { %>
          loadShortcutIcon(13,100);
          <% } %>
          in iPlanet, when the parameter "imageName" is not in the URL, the javascript
          variable gets set to "null" - but in WebLogic, it is set to a blank string -
          "". Is there anyway to make this return null like iPlanet?
          Thanks,
          Matt


Hi,
the URL parameter is added just for the request to the page. When you press the command button then you issue a new request that does not have a URL parameter added. To work around this, you can use a PhaseListener that stores the URL request parameter in the session for later use
Frank

Null values returned when using request.getParameters(

I have a html form which allows the user to choose options and select a file to upload. When I use method=Post I get null values returned. When I use method=Get I get my parameter values fine.. but I get an error.
"Posted content type isn't multipart/form-data"
I would like to know why I am getting null values returned when using Post. I am using the following to get the values from the name=value passed to the servlet.
String strIndustry = request.getParameter("frmIndustry");
String strCompany = request.getParameter("frmCompany");
String strCollabType = request.getParameter("frmCollaboration");
I have another form where the user can search information in a database that works just fine w/ either Get or Post
Or perhaps I am using oreilly MultipartRequest incorrectly??? but I copied it directly from another discussion.. ???
any thoughts
Thanks

taybon:
you could do it like this. in this case, you submit your form with the parameters (industry, company, collaboration), and upload your file at the same time. and in the target servlet, you can build your MultipartRequest object like this:
MultipartRequest multi = new MultipartRequest(request, temp_location, 50 * 1024);where variable temp_location stands for a temporatory diretory for file uploading.
and then you get your parameters, so you can build the directory with them. and after that, you can move your file to that directory using File.renameTo();
but as i've suggested in my previous posting, i just recommend you upload your file in a separate form. and then you can perform an oridianry doPost form submit with those parameters. or you may have problems with the file uploading. (this is just my personal experiences with Multipart).
there is one other thing i'd like to mention, file.renameTo() won't work if you need to move files to a network drive in windows. it won't work if you move files across file systems in unix.
Song xiaofei
Developer Technical Support
Sun Microsystems
http://www.sun.com/developers/support

Jsp request.getparameter doesn't get querystring values

We have recently deployed our jsp application which was running successfully on ias8i apache jserv into the 8.1.7 JVM and configured the mod_ose on the Oracle HTTP server every thing seems to be fine except the following case.
Here we are accepting the userid,password from a jsp and submiting to the same jsp for action on submit we are reading a combination of jsp form feilds and url querystrings strangely we are able to get values only for the form feilds and querystrings return null.
The same peice of code works fine on apache jserv implementation.
Any clues please write to me.
<SCRIPT Language="JavaScript">
function check_password()
document.Login.action ="problem.jsp?tab=YES&nSessionId="+document.Login.sessionid.value+"&nUserId=" + document.Login.userid.value;
document.Login.target = "_top";
document.Login.method = "post";
document.Login.submit();
</SCRIPT>
<%
userid = request.getParameter("userid");
password = request.getParameter("password");
tab = request.getParameter("tab");
%>
<form name="Login" Border="0" TopMargin="0" LeftMargin="0" Marginheight="0" Marginwidth="0">
<table>
<tr>
<td class="FORMHEADERLEFTB"><b> Login</td>
<td class="FORMHEADERLEFT">:</td>
<td><input TYPE="TEXT" NAME="userid" SIZE="25" VALUE="<%=userid%> MAXLENGTH="10"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="FORMHEADERLEFTB"> Password</td>
<td class="FORMHEADERLEFT">:</td>
<td><input TYPE="password" NAME="password" SIZE="25" VALUE="<%=password%>" MAXLENGTH="10" onChange="check_password()"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="sessionid" value="999999">
</form>
Thanks
suresh
null

How are you retrieving the parameter values? I am able to retrieve parameters successfully using the following simple testcase:
untitled1.jsp:
<form method="post" action="servlet1">
<P>Username:
<input type="text" name="un"/>
</P>
<P>Password:
<input type="text" name="pw"/></P>
<P>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</P>
</form>
servlet1.java: (copy and paste from doGet() to doPost() method depending on value of form method in untitled1.jsp)
String un = request.getParameter("un").toString();
String pw = request.getParameter("pw").toString();
out.println(un);
out.println(pw);
Please test this and let me know your results and the differences with what you are trying to do.
Regards,
Lynn
Java Tools Team

In WL6.1 request.getParameter returns NULL for URL parameters that exist

          With the following URL, I get different results between WebLogic 4.5.1 and WebLogic
          6.1:
          http://phx-kmccarthy.medspecialists.net/tsweb/ParametersTest.jsp?apple=macintosh&tree&dog&country=USA
          Weblogic 6.1 returns:
          query string = apple=macintosh&tree&dog&country=USA
          apple = macintosh
          tree = null
          dog = null
          country = USA
          WebLogic 4.5.1 returns:
          query string = apple=macintosh&tree&dog&country=USA
          apple = macintosh
          tree =
          dog =
          country = USA
          here is the jsp...
          <%--
          * ParamtersTest.jsp which shows that empty parameters are ignored in WebLogic
          6.1
          --%>
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          String apple, tree, dog, country;
          apple = request.getParameter("apple");
          tree = request.getParameter("tree");
          dog = request.getParameter("dog");
          country = request.getParameter("country");
          out.println("<br>query string = " + request.getQueryString());
          out.println("<br>apple = " + apple);
          out.println("<br>tree = " + tree);
          out.println("<br>dog = " + dog);
          out.println("<br>country = " + country);
          %>
          From the documentation on the getParameter() method:
          Returns the value of a request parameter as a String, or null if the parameter
          does not exist.
          In my opinion, not existing and being empty are different. Also, every other web
          application environment we've dealt with (including WebLogic 4.5.1) treats them
          as different. If the parameter doesn't have a value, (i.e. ...&tree&dog&...) then
          getParameter() returns the empty string, not null.
          As a result of this we have JSPs that break when running on 6.1.


Found the solution at last. Tomcat servlet container can't handle the chunked transfer-encoding that the J2ME Wireless Toolkit uses when you call outputstream.flush() in midlet. Using outputstream.close() instead of outputstream.flush() will avoid this problem for small requests. For all the codes in the articles on Http Post in Wireless Forum, don't use outputstream.flush() and it will run perfectly - Servlet's request.getParameter(parameterName) will work fine in doPost method.

Request.getParameter() always returns null

I have a html file and am trying to retrieve the values from a formin my servlet.
here is the html code:
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<h1><b>Add DVD</b></h1>
</head>
<body>
<form action="add_dvd.do" method="POST">
Title:<input type="text" name="title" />
Year:<input type="text" name="year" />
Genre: <select name='gselected'>
<option value='Sci-Fi'>Sci-Fi</option>
</select>
or enter new genre:<input type="text" name='gentered' value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Add DVD" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
and here is the servlet code:
public class AddDVDServlet extends HttpServlet {
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
// System.out.println("in AddDVDServlet post method");
List errorMsgs = new LinkedList();
//retrieve form parameters
try{
String title = request.getParameter("title").trim();
String year = request.getParameter("year").trim();
*String gentered = request.getParameter("gentered");
String gselected = request.getParameter("gselected");
String genre="";
if("".equals(gentered))
genre = gselected;
else
genre = gentered;
// System.out.println("parameter retrieved");
if(!year.matches("\\d\\d\\d\\d"))
// System.out.println("year not 4 digit long");
errorMsgs.add("Year must be four digit long");
if("".equals(title))
// System.out.println("title not entered");
errorMsgs.add("Please enter the title of the dvd");
if("".equals(genre))
// System.out.println("genre not valid");zdf
errorMsgs.add("Enter genre.");
if(! errorMsgs.isEmpty())
//System.out.println("errors in entry ");
request.setAttribute("errors",errorMsgs);
// System.out.println("error attribute set in request");
RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher("error.view");
rd.forward(request, response);
return;
//create DVDItem instance
DVDItem dvd = new DVDItem(title,year,genre);
request.setAttribute("dvdItem",dvd);
RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher("success.view");
rd.forward(request, response);
catch(Exception e){
errorMsgs.add(e.getMessage());
request.setAttribute("errors",errorMsgs);
RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher("error.view");
rd.forward(request, response);
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("exception:"+e);
why does getParameter always return null??? whats wrong?

I don't know. However, I suspect that because you have a tag with the same name as 'title', its causing a name conflict. Chnage the name to something else. If it works, then that's the likely explaination.

Request.getParameter("") values: Are they null or ""?

Hello:
I have a web page that links up to a MYSQL database. I use JSP files to process the database queries from an HTML form. However, I am having an issue after moving the code from MYSQL 5.0 and JDK 1.5 to a machine with MYSQL 4.X and JDK 1.4.X
I am enabling user to enter several pieces of search criteria that I, in turn, use to build the SQL syntax statement. And I test to see which HTML fields the user has entered something into so that the SQL only includes those where statements.
I first had the following to process the individual search criteria into SQL where statements:
String tester1 = request.getParameter("tester");
String tester = "";
if (tester1 != "") {
     tester += " tester like \"" + tester1 + "%\"" + " and ";
     } else {
tester += "";
so if the user enter "Tommy in the tester field as a search criterion this part of the SQL would be
tester like Tommy%
Then I build the select statment with only the where statements that the user is interested in (and provided search criteria on):
String syntax = "Select * from database where ";
String array[] = { tester, call_from, call_to, r_no, rec_no, date };
for (int counter=0;counter<array.length;counter++){
          if (array[counter] != "") {
          syntax += array[counter];
int a = 0;
int b = (syntax.length() - 4);
String syntax1 = syntax.substring(a, b);
so the above would create
Select * from database where tester like Tommy%
This worked on the previous machine. However, it no longer works on the machine with the older apis. So I have tried everything to weed out the blank database fields so they are not factored in the query (if they are they return nothing as these fields are required to be entered into the database). I tried this:
String tester1 = request.getParameter("tester");
String tester = "";
if ((tester1 != "") || (tester1 != null)){
     tester += " tester like \"" + tester1 + "%\"" + " and ";
     } else {
tester += "#";
. . . and then . . .
String syntax = "Select * from database where ";
String array[] = { tester, call_from, call_to, r_no, rec_no, date };
for (int counter=0;counter<array.length;counter++){
          if (array[counter] != "#") {
          syntax += array[counter];
int a = 0;
int b = (syntax.length() - 4);
String syntax1 = syntax.substring(a, b);
But no matter what I try the query that gets sent to the database is as follows:
Select * from qa_data where tester like "%" and called_from_1 = "" and call_to = "" and r_no = "" and rec_no = "" and (date >= "" and date <= "")
So I am at a loss. It appears that I am not testing for the correct value that the browser is sending to my JSP file when a user does not enter a value in the field. What other than "" and null are there? I have tested for one or the other and both. I am at a loss now as to what to do. I am only concerned with IE6/7 and Firefox 1.5
I output what the value being sent to the JSP file was and it was something like "The tester value is:". So, basically it isn't anything ("").
Can anyone help me here?

Rule #1 when comparing strings: use the equals() method, rather than == or !=
You only use == when checking for null, or checking to see if it is the same object.
if (tester1 == null || tester1.trim().equals("")){
// value is null/empty/spaces only
else {
// a value is present
}

Request.getParameter("_ROWKEY") returns null in JDev 3.2

My SubmitEditForm.jsp uses a bean which inherits from the EditCurrentRecord data web bean. In JDeveloper 3.1 'request.getParameter("ROWKEY")' in this JSP returns the rowkey for the record being edited, but in JDeveloper 3.2 'request.getParameter("_ROWKEY")' returns null. No modifications have bean made to the application - the working JDeveloper 3.1 app has only been compiled in JDeveloper 3.2. Can anyone help please?

Hi,
This exception is raised when the multipart/form-data parser has read the number of bytes specified by the Content-Length HTTP header, or tries to read past the end of the input stream, but has not parsed to the end of the message. As implied by the error text, this can happen for a couple of reasons.
Although its unlikely, it is possible for a client to sent an incorrect Content-Length header. However, we've so far only seen this with a user-written HTTP client. We have yet to see a browser send the wrong value.
The usual reason for this error is if a user hits the stop button while submitting a form. If the browser has already sent the HTTP header, including Content-Type, then the parser will try to read the entire message. However, this is going to fail, as the browser stops sending the request as soon as the stop button is pressed.
Finally, there is one more possible reason for this error, and that is if the request is somehow being 'munged' in some way between the browser and the servlet container.
To help us better understand what is happening here, can you supply
the following information:
- Does this problem happen consistently or occur only randomly?
- When it does happen, is it repeatable, or does it go away if the user hits the submit button again?
- Does it happen with certain HTML forms, any HTML form, or is it specific to the data entered into a pariticular form?
- Does it happen with any browser, or a specific version and/or implementation?
- What is your network configuration? For example, does the problem occur only when going through a proxy server or fire wall.
- Does it depend on network load? For example, does it happen only at heavy load times?
- What is you web server configuration, on what platform are you running it, and what JDK version are you using?
As I'm writing this, the TAR system is down for upgrades - my apologies if you've already supplied this information.
Regards,
Simon
null

Request.getParameter() values in servlet? Urgent

String str=request.getParameter();
I am facing a problem when i submit the arabic values from hidden form fields using javascript.
In servlet when i tries to retrive the arabic values stored in the session, it displays only
garbage values(ie. ?????????).
How to solve this problem?
Please clarify and if possible give some samples.
Thanks & Regards,
Govindaraman

Hi Govindaraman,
in O'Reilly's Servlet book in the internationalization section it describes how. You have to change the String returned into bytes using the proper enconding, then back into a String to it will convert to Unicode.
The basics are this:
String parameterName="your param name";
String encoding = "your charset encoding on the page";
String value = request.getParameter(parameterName);
value = new String(value.getBytes(), encoding);
value is now a Unicode string that should be correctly interpreted.
You can use new String( oldString.getBytes(), encoding) to convert between charsets.

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