I am making a "blog-platform" where users can write articles, and I want each article to get its own URL. Therefore, I'd like every page with the URL /blog/* to be sent to the same Servlet.
I have tried using web.xml like this:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>BlogServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>package.BlogServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>BlogServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/blog/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>MainServlet</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
This doesn't work. /blog works, but /blog/ and /blog/any_string only gives off a timeout after a while. What am I doing wrong? Is there any other way I could implement this, other than parameters?
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I have DD (web.xml file) with very simple code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="4.0">
<display-name>TestProject</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>/result.jsp</jsp-file>
<init-param>
<param-name>email</param-name>
<param-value>example#gmail.com</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<context-param>
<param-name>name</param-name>
<param-value>Max</param-value>
</context-param>
</web-app>
Notice I have two parameters (one in application, other in configuration scope). When I try to get them inside result.jsp with:
<html><body>
Name is: <%=application.getInitParameter("name") %>
<br>
Email is: <%=config.getInitParameter("email") %>
</body></html>
, I get following output:
Name is: Max
Email is: null
My question is simple: how did I get NULL for "email" parameter? Shouldn't my JSP file "see" how I configured it and return "example#gmail.com"?
Is that your entire web.xml file? And by any chance are you accessing the JSP directly in the browser? Like:
http://localhost:8080/<yourAppContext>/result.jsp
If that is the case, then you will get this response:
Name is: Max
Email is: null
It is not wrong. It is correct.
The reason you get this result is that you are not accessing the JSP through the configuration you defined in web.xml, you are just accessing the JSP directly, which behind the scene has a different implicit configuration, and it's not the one you think you are configuring.
If you want this response:
Name is: Max
Email is: example#gmail.com
Then you need to add a servlet mapping. The complete configuration is:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>/result.jsp</jsp-file>
<init-param>
<param-name>email</param-name>
<param-value>example#gmail.com</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/test</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
and you need to access this URL, not the JSP path, with:
http://localhost:8080/<yourAppContext>/test
You might want to also read these:
Url Mapping For Jsp
Servlet JSP web.xml
To further drive the point home, it's important to mention that you need a mapping for one of your servlets to be useful. If you just define a servlet in web.xml, it just sits there. You need to tell the server how to use it, and for that you use the <servlet-mapping>. It's saying to the server that for a request on a path, some specific servlet needs to be called to handle the request.
You can create this mapping to point to a servlet class using <servlet-class> or to a JSP using <jsp-file>. They are basically the same thing, since a JSP eventually becomes a servlet class.
What I think is confusing you (based on the comment below) is that for JSP files you already have some implicit mapping created by the server, as described here.
When you access the JSP directly, with
http://localhost:8080/<yourAppContext>/result.jsp
you are using the implicit server mapping which contains no special configuration attached (like the email you want to send to it).
When you access the JSP with
http://localhost:8080/<yourAppContext>/test
you are accessing your mapping. And this you can configure however you want, and send it whatever parameters you want, and your JSP will now be able to read them.
Im deploying a webapplication to tomcat 8 (renaming to ROOT.war) because the url pattern was set to / I thought that all requests would get directed the servlet. But that wasnt the case, eventually i realized that if I was starting the url with a ? such as
http://localhost:8080/?search=fred
it would not work, but without the ? it would work
http://localhost:8080/search=fred
Why is this ?
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee">
<display-name>Widget</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>WidgetServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.jthink.WidgetServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>WidgetServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
If you want your Servlet to serve all URLs then url-pattern should be like this
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
As the name suggests, it should be RegEx pattern. When you say / - it means to look for single occurrence of / in URL. But when you have multiple slashes in URL, something like
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28945202/
then it should be /* which means you're asking it to look for zero or more occurrences of slash.
Hope that makes it clear :)
The servlet mapping is specific. You need to add a wildcard.
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>WidgetServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Its so confusing. Don't have any kind of idea what happend here:
I want to deploy a simple WAR-project. Two HttpServlets, one just forwards the request to another one:
...
String[] selectedOptionsLabels = ...
req.setAttribute("checkedLabels", selectedOptionsLabels);
try {
req.getRequestDispatcher("/confirmationservlet.do").forward(req, resp);
}
...
When I try to set some values on the form it works great without dispatcher, but when I try this example, my browser can't handle the servlet. It tries to download the file confirmationservlet.do. Confusing.
There seems to be a mapping problem, but I can't figure it out, since the deployment does also work fine.
Do you have an idea?
This is my web.xml (without outer web-app-tag) <--- Only for testing purposes, knowing there are annotations.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>FormHandlerServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
de.lancom.formhandling.FormHandlerServlet
</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>FormHandlerServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/formhandlerservlet.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>ConfirmationServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
de.lancom.formhandling.ConfirmationServlet
</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>ConfirmationServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/confirmationservlet.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>dataentry.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
Try the following method:
HttpServletResponse#sendRedirect()
to send a redirect.
response.sendRedirect("/confirmationservlet.do");
Hello i have a question about servlet calling another servlet
I have a main servlet called Relay which is going to be responsible to control the other servlets
the user will click on and will be forwarded to Relay servlet
<li>Check the available animals </li>
inside Relay servlet will get the value of the parameter to determine which servlet is going to run
String selectAnimal = request.getParameter("selectAnimal");
if (selectAnimal.equals("SelectAnimalServlet")){
getServletContext().getNamedDispatcher("/SelectAnimalServlet")
.forward(request, response);
//for testing
System.out.println("Request forwarded to " + selectAnimal + " servlet");
}
SelectAnimalServlet code:
try
{
HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
session.getAttribute("currentSessionUser");
List<AnimalSelectBean> beans = DAO.getAnimalList();
request.setAttribute("beans", beans);
request.getRequestDispatcher("CheckAnimal.jsp").forward(request, response);
}
Now when i run that it's not working for some reason, if i change the link to SelectAnimalServlet directly the code works any idea how to solve this ?
Edit:
Here is my web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:javaee="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>content.LoginServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>UpdateAnimalServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>content.UpdateAnimalServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>SelectAnimalServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>content.SelectAnimalServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Relay</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>content.Relay</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>SelectAnimalServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/SelectAnimalServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>UpdateAnimalServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/UpdateAnimalServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/LoginServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Relay</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/Relay</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
also I changed:
getServletContext().getNamedDispatcher("/SelectAnimalServlet")
.forward(request, response);
to:
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL(selectAnimal));
and still the same thing blank webpage with http://localhost:8080/oosd/Relay?selectAnimal=SelectAnimalServlet link
getNamedDispatcher expects a servlet name; you're providing it with a servlet URL.
Either use the name, or use getRequestDispatcher with the URL.
Since you're forwarding, the URL will not change--there is no redirect response sent back to the browser on a forward. The contents of the forward are written directly to the original response.
Now that you're forwarding, you need to redirect to the URL, not just the name of the servlet.
What does the servlet you redirect to do for output?
I don't believe your parameter naming convention makes any sense. The parameter shouldn't be named the same as a servlet name; the parameter should be something like "command" or "select". You would then use the command parameter value to look up the URL of the servlet. Or, in your case, just prepend a /, and you're done. There's no need to do any if/else comparisons.
I want one of my servlets (test2) to handles the "/" request (i.e. http://localhost/), while another servlet (test1) handles all other requests ("/*").
I set up my web.xml below, but the problem is that ALL requests go to test1.jsp (even the "/" request)
Can someone tell my how to accomplish this?
<servlet>
<servlet-name>test1</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>/test1.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>test1</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>test2</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>/test2.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>test2</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
----EDIT-----
i realized my question was a bit unclear and incomplete. here is an example of exactly what i want to accomplish..
http://mytestsite.com/ -> maps to http://mytestsite.com/index.html
http://mytestsite.com/servlet1 -> runs com.mytestsite.servlet1
http://mytestsite.com/* -> maps to http://mytestsite.com/catchall.jsp (i want all other requests that aren't mapped in web.xml to map to catchall.jsp)
so my web.xml looks as follows:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>servlet1</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.mytestsite.servlet1</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>servlet1</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/servlet1</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>catchall</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>/catchall.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>catchall</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
so i noticed a strange problem. when i request http://mytestsite.com/, it goes to catchall.jsp before being redirected to index.html. however, it happens so quickly i wouldn't have even noticed it hitting catchall.jsp (but i put a System.out.println in this file, and it was definitely hitting it).
I think your goal is a bit confusing and brittle. However, to answer your question, try a welcome file entry for the http://your-domain.com/ request.
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/test2.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
It is most common to then have test2.jsp perform a redirect or forward to some other 'controller' in your application. That way your MVC is always fired even on http://your-domain.com/ requests.
If you agree with me on that, then your welcome file should be index.jsp (to follow common conventions). The code in index.jsp is then a one-liner redirect to a 'welcome' servlet.
Use a forwarding filter instead of servlet. It's very simple to intercept "/" using such method.
filter --> /*
servlet1 --> /_some_hidden_path_1_
servlet2 --> /_some_hidden_path_2_
Really not sure about that, but maybe the order that you declare\map your servlets defines precedence. Try to declare\map test2 first and see.
Kind Regards
Try not mapping the / request to anything (get rid of the test2 servlet), and instead use a welcome file:
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>
test2.jsp
</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>