How to get the type of component in the request

[Rupal Rshah]

I want to know how do i know the type of component on the requst object. That means if i have an HTML page with textbox, button and few other components, if on submitting this form i call i servlet. Then in a servlet how do i know the type of the compenent.

[J. Kevin Robbins]

I'm not sure why you would want to do that, but the only way I can think of is by using naming conventions since the name of the field/button is submitted as the name of the parameter. For instance, name an input field with a name attribute of "ifirstname" or a button with a name of "bsubmit". You could then parse the name to determine the component type.

But this seems like a lot of trouble for little gain. Why do you need this information? If you'll explain why you want to do this, maybe there is a better way to accomplish your goal.

[Bear Bibeault]

That would be extremely odd. I too would like to know what you intend to do with this information.