Embed data in a url and pass it to a servlet

[Rajesh Khan]

Hi i am currently stuck in a dilemma. I was thinking about an application in which users could add books randomly..
Now when the database is queried it displays all the books present with a hyperlink under the names of the books.When a user clicks on the hyperlink a separate jsp page is loaded with the details of the book.
What i wanted to do was embed the name of a book and its id in the hyperlink and when the servlet runs it extracts the data from the jsp. How could i do that. One way i think would be is to use a hidden input box .. any other recommendations ??

[Bear Bibeault]

The modern way to do it is with a RESTful URL.

For example: /contextpath/servletpath/books/213

Which would retrieve and display the information for the book with the id of 213.

It's also perfectly acceptable to pass the id as a request parameter in the query string, just not as new wave.

[Rajesh Khan]

Cant seem to find any information of restful url ? Could you please explain it a little?

[Pete Nelson]

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[Miku Ranjan]

Hi,
You can send data in url string itsel as follow:
yoururl?key=value&key2=value2

[Bear Bibeault]

Miku Ranjan wrote:Hi,
You can send data in url string itsel as follow:
yoururl?key=value&key2=value2

Yeah, if you want to be "old school".