Passing Javascript array to servlet

[Garg]

Hi All,

I am facing one problem if you are having any solution please tell me.

I have to pass an array from javascript to servlet. for this i created
one array and pass that through submitting the form with post method
and i am using request.getParameterValues to get that array. But i am
getting values in the first position of that array and that also comma
separated so that also of no use for me.

Is there any way to pass the value to the Servlet?

Thanks
Tarun Garg

 

[Erwin Moller]

Hi All,

I am facing one problem if you are having any solution please tell me.

I have to pass an array from javascript to servlet. for this i created
one array and pass that through submitting the form with post method
and i am using request.getParameterValues to get that array. But i am
getting values in the first position of that array and that also comma
separated so that also of no use for me.

Is there any way to pass the value to the Servlet?

Thanks
Tarun Garg

Hi Garg,

You can do many things, but I think the easiest is simple define your own
datastructure, or better said: data encodingscheme.

A simple example:
Suppose you have (in JS) an array that contains only numbers, and want to
pass that.
convert:
Array(1,4,67,897,1254);
to a string:
"1,4,67,897,1254"
and put that string into a hidden field (or a normal textfield, or whatever
part of your form that can hold a string).

When the servlet receives the Form, you can simple get the string, split it
by ',' and create a new array in Java that you populate with the seperate
values.

If you have to send more complex information, eg if you JS array contains
characters and number, you'll have to encode the characters before adding
them to a string.
eg:
If you have this:
Array(1, 'bla,di,bla', 45)
You'll have top make sure the , in 'bla,di,bla' are encoded so you can split
the string when it arrives.

I never had a real-life situation where I couldn't encode an Array in the
simple way I just described, BUT: If your array is really complex, and
contains arrays itself, you better start looking at other solutions, maybe
JSON (I never used that, so maybe I talk nonsense).


Good luck,

Regards,
Erwin Moller

 

[Frederik Vanderstraeten]

Erwin Moller schreef:

I never had a real-life situation where I couldn't encode an Array in the
simple way I just described, BUT: If your array is really complex, and
contains arrays itself, you better start looking at other solutions, maybe
JSON (I never used that, so maybe I talk nonsense).

JSON would work perfectly. It has libraries in almost all modern
languages allowing you to transparently change a Javascript array into
an array in any other programming language.