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Hi Guys,

I tried the following and got end up with a null pointer exception!

The test.jsp,

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How is the doGet being called. Are you forwarding it to the Servlet or something....

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Yes,

I'm using a servlet-mapping element as below,

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Hi Jothi Shankar Kumar Sankararaj ,

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Srinivas,

I'm not able to follow...1.4 sends the response form to user.
1.5 request ends here. (request and all attributes gone
with wind)

Why and how??

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Hi Shankar,

Important to know What specs guarentee you!

SRV.4.10 Lifetime of the Request Object

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The user is making two requests.

The first one for test.jsp (the form page) by typing the correct url in the browser, I guess.
The second for "ExampleServlet" (this requested is triggered when he presses the "SUBMIT" button).

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Got the catch! Srinivasan, thanks for bringing the bits from the servlet specs.

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Guys,

Then in such a situation (for the scenario as above where we have to go from a jsp to a servlet), we can only place this in the application scope or session scope. Am I right??

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So what else could be the way to use the request attribute for the code above?? I want to set the attribute in the jsp and get it in the servlet. Should I get a request dispatcher and forward the request and response or Should I store this as a session attribute which I don't want since I'm not going to use session for the above example??
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Then in such a situation (for the scenario as above where we have to go from a jsp to a servlet), we can only place this in the application scope or session scope. Am I right??



You could put some values in html hidden fields too. They will be sent in the request as strings.

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Satou,

The question is when I set the request attribute in a jsp and when hitting the submit button, the jsp calls a servlet and in that servlet, I'm trying to get the values of the attribute using getAttribute method and when I tried this, it gave me NullPointerException. I later understood that when the service method of the jsp finishes the request attributes gets vanished which is why I'm getting a null pointer. So like you say when I use a hidden field it is again the same or??

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Sorry I got confused. Putting them in hidden fields, you would have to use getParameter to retrieve them, not getAttribute. Please forget about this.

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Satou,

Then what would be the solution to my question?? I want to use only request attribute.

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Can I try doing something with a requestdispatcher like this in my jsp??

RequestDispatcher view = request.getRequestDispatcher("/ExampleServlet")?? Is the argument correct or should it only point to a jsp???

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You can't, because the request is generated by the web client after submission. You can do it with servlet->jsp, not jsp->servlet. If you need to store something beyong the scope of a request, then you'll have to put it in session or application scope.

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I guessed it and you confirmed it Satou. You help me a lot. Thanks once again

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