Getting html form name

[Sree Mami]

Hi all

I am having a jsp page with some form controls. Suppose, if I click on a radio button, it will transfer control to next jsp page and there I should be able to track which form has generated the request. And, depending on the form name again I have to forward the result of that jsp page to the previous page or any other jsp page.

In this situation I am trying to invoke a function in javascript when a radio button is clicked which has following code:

if(radioValue=="sometext")
{
var z=document.<formname>.name;
document.<formname>.hiddenfld.value=z;
document.<formname>.action="nextpage.jsp";
document.<formname>.submit() ; 
}
    

In this situation when I am checking a radio button I am getting error saying

document.formname.hiddenfld.value is null or not object

What actually I planned is, if I am able to set the formname in the hidden field, I can getParameter of that hidden field in next field and check for it's value there and subsequently I can forward to corresponding jsp page. But it didn't work. What else can be done?

Please clarify...

[Ernesto Elias-Nieland]

Hi!

I dont't really understand your problem in detail but why are you using JavaScript for that kind of stuff ? You could better send your form data to a servlett which processes your form data and than forwards the results to a JSP page. To identify the sender of the request you can use a hidden form element which sends a action code from which your servlet can deside what to do.

Ernie

[Sree Mami]

Hi

Can you explain me clearly, how to send the action command from the form element to servlet. Any sample code is appreciated, as I am not good at using Servlets I have started using jsp/servlets few days back.

[Bear Bibeault]

Moved to the HTML forum.

[Darren Edwards]

I think what you're after is a way to tell which button was clicked on a form with many buttons?

<form ....>
<input type="submit" name="next" value="Next" />
<input type="submit" name="previous" value="Previous" />
<input type="submit" name="cancel" value="Cancel" />
</form>

In your servlet you can now check for the existence of the button.

if (request.getParameter("next") != null) {
  // next was clicked
} else if (request.getParameter("previous") != null) {
  // previous was clicked
} else if (request.getParameter("cancel") != null) {
  // cancel was clicked
}

[Sree Mami]

Hi all,

Is there any other way for me to know which form has generated the request in Servlet? i.e., I should be able to know the <formname> in my servelt.

[Bear Bibeault]

A form is a client-side artifact. To need to know its name on the server-side indicates a flaw in design. Why do you need this information?

[Sree Mami]

I have three forms in my project.

I am getting values into these 3 forms from the database using some controller JSP's by interacting with the Bean classes. I need some set of values to be displayed in all the 3 jsp pages. What I did during designing of my first form is I binded the database values to a session for use in any jsp page. I forwarded the controller jsp page to my main JSP. In that situation it was fine.

But during the design time of my 2nd jsp what I found was I need the same controller jsp to transfer the same set of values to the 2nd jsp also. Here I faced a problem, as I need to forward the controller JSP to both forms. Later I noticed that my 3rd form also needs some of the values from one of the controller jsp.

Here I am thinking of resolving it as, "Identifying the request generated by the form using it's FORM NAME and depending on the name of the form I want to forward the page to any of my 3 main forms".

Can u please suggest me how I can achieve this task.

What I was doing till now is to get values into a dropdown list box I am writing a bean class to get values from database, then I am writing a controller jsp where I am getting values from bean class stored into an arraylist which is then bind to a session object and then it is used in the Main JSP. Depending on the value selected in the listbox again I have to invoke another method from the bean class and get those values, even for this task I have a controller jsp which does the job and again it is bind in session object which is again used in my Main jsp, here after binding the arraylist values to a session I need to transfer control again to my Main JSP

[ July 22, 2006: Message edited by: Sree Mami ]

[Eric Pascarello]

Easier solution, put a hidden filed on the page with a value where you are at.

Eric

[Sree Mami]

Yes, I am using a hidden field and as I am aware of my form name I am directly passing it as the value to that hidden field. When I transfer control to a jsp page, I am retrieving the hidden field value there and comparing it with a string variable declared there with the hidden field value and transferring control to subsequent JSP page. Here my problem is that, I am able to transfer control to first <jsp:forward page="first.jsp"> page only, the rest are being ignored. What shall I do?

My code is:

 
String fname=(String)request.getParameter("hidden1");
if(fname.equals("form1")
{
 <jsp:forward page="form1.jsp"/>
}
else if(fname.equals("form2");
{
<jsp:forward page="form2.jsp"/>
 
}
else
{
 <jsp:forward page="form3.jsp"/>
 
}
    

Where hidden1 is the Hidden field which is declared in all the 3 forms with same name...

[Bear Bibeault]

Is that the actual code that is in your page?

[Sree Mami]

Ya, it was the actual code which was not working,

String fname=(String)request.getParameter("hidden1");
if(fname.equals("form1")
{ %><jsp:forward page="form1.jsp"/><%}
else if(fname.equals("form2")
{%><jsp:forward page="form2.jsp"/><% }
else{ %><jsp:forward page="form3.jsp"/><% }    
 

    

so I need to write different controller JSP's for forwarding the results to each of those main forms...
[ July 26, 2006: Message edited by: Sree Mami ]

[Sree Mami]

Ya, I am getting some error, I will try to find it for myself and will get back to you, actually I forgot to open and close scriptlet tag before forwarding the page to one of the main forms..