Identifying which button was clicked

[Vijay Arora]

I have 4 submit buttons in my jsp page and on click of each button i generate different report.on submiting i want to pass a value for each report to a single servlet.and there i will check that if value of parameter is this then call that method i this then that.

How can i do this ???

Please help..
Thanks
[ November 16, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Nikki Agr]

You can try specifying your servlet path in the action attribute of the form tag.

<form method="POST" action="/yourServletPath">

Hope that helps

[Nikki Agr]

Sorry, here's how you can retrieve the value in your Servlet. Use

request.getParameter("name")

where name is the name you give to the control in your form.

[Ramkumar Subburaj]

you can use java script to submit the form where you can attach a parameter with the action and retrieve it in the servlet

OR


you can have four different servlet-mapping for the same servlet and use java script to submit to each of those mappings depending on the button being clicked.

In this way you can use getRequestURI() on the request object to know from which url(specified in the deployment descriptor) the request came from and call the appropriate method in your servlet

[Girish Gopal]

On click of the button you can attach a key as request parameter and then generate the report according to the key you have passed.

One way you can do this is noted down.

<script>
getReport= function(formObj,key)
{
formObj.key.value=key;
formObj.submit();
}
</script>

<form method="get" action="myServlet" &>
<input type="text" name="key"/>
<input type="button" value="1" onklick="getReport(this.parentNode,1)" />
<input type="button" value="2" onklick="getReport(this.parentNode,2)" />
<input type="button" value="3" onklick="getReport(this.parentNode,3)" />
<input type="button" value="4" onklick="getReport(this.parentNode,4)" />
</form>


Now you get the key in the servlet using request.getParameter("key") and generate report according to it.

[Girish Gopal]

sorry the < symbol got screwed up in the last post..posting it again..

On click of the button you can attach a key as request parameter and then generate the report according to the key you have passed.

One way you can do this is noted down.

< script>
getReport= function(formObj,key)
{
formObj.key.value=key;
formObj.submit();
}
< /script>

< form method="get" action="myServlet" &>
< input type="text" name="key"/>
< input type="button" value="1" onklick="getReport(this.parentNode,1)" />
< input type="button" value="2" onklick="getReport(this.parentNode,2)" />
< input type="button" value="3" onklick="getReport(this.parentNode,3)" />
< input type="button" value="4" onklick="getReport(this.parentNode,4)" />
< /form>


Now you get the key in the servlet using request.getParameter("key") and generate report according to it.

[Bear Bibeault]

But why go through all that JavaScript when it's not necessary? Simply assign a name and value to the submit buttons and the request parameter will be submitted.

<input type="submit" name="action" value="1"/>
<input type="submit" name="action" value="2"/>
<input type="submit" name="action" value="3"/>
    

[ November 16, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Suman Sharma]

One way to do this is to have four radio buttons with the same name for different kinds of reports, and one submit button.
When one of the radio buttons will be selected on a form, that value will be sent to a servlet whose path should be specified in the action attribute of the form.
In the servlet the value can be retrieved using the request.getParameter(name of the radio button)method.

[Bear Bibeault]

There's really no need to needlessly complicate the form with extra radio buttons. Again, it's as simple as assigning values to the submit buttons.
[ November 16, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Girish Gopal]

Cool, I never knew that button elements value will be added to request parameter on form submit.Thanks Bear that was a simple solution.