Difference between getAttribute and getParameter

[Anoobkumar Padmanabhan]

Hi Team

i have a very basic doubt in servlet. what is the differnce between getAttribute and getParameter.
what are all the situations where we are using both of them?

[Bear Bibeault]

getAttribute() is used to fetch scoped variables.

getParameter() is used to fetch request parameters from the GET query string or POST body.

[Moin Yadageri]

getAttribute() is used to retrieve objects which are stored in the request, session or application context scopes of the application using setAttribute()

[Anoobkumar Padmanabhan]

Then, getAttribute() is used in the JSP page to get the results that are set into a scope(request, session...) and getParameter() is used to get the values we are getting from a JSP page.

Am I right?

[Angel J Gama]

Just like Bear Bibeault said:

getAttribute() is used to fetch scoped variables.

How you scope them? In a serlvet you do request.setAttribute("attrName", attrValue); So you can only use it within the same request. For example, in a servlet you retrieve some data from database, a record, you "scope it" as request attribute, and if your servlet is forwarding the request to another servlet or jsp, you can continue using that scoped attribute.

getParameter() is used to fetch request parameters from the GET query string or POST body.

a) You use it when you need to retrieve params from the query string, for example: http://hellou.mx?param1=hola¶m2=amigos, request.getParameter("param1") will give you back "hola".
b) You can use it to retrieve params comming from a post (for example, when user submitted an application/x-www-form-urlencoded form).

[Anoobkumar Padmanabhan]

Thank You all.
now I got an idea..

[Anoobkumar Padmanabhan]

Thank You all.
now I got an idea..

[tuty sra]

the explanation is really good