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From index.jso the Servloet in not called

 
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Hi,

I have this code in the index.jsp:




In my web.xml I put:


The Servlet is like this:



When I debug after pressing the button in the form, it doesnt goes to the Servlet.

Any idea, please?

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Hello,

Try fixing your action path to match the action path on the server e.g.

<form method="GET" action="/action">

or

<form method="GET" action="/application_path/action">

or

<form method="GET" action=".../action">

etc.

With:
<form method="GET" action="action"> the path is relative to the location of your jsp and the jsp would need to be in the root of your webapp I think...

This is isn't like struts or spring or what not, you are writing raw html in your jsp hence the path needs to match the path on the server.
 
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When I am in the index in the URI I can see this:


http://localhost:3308/leanRouteWeb/#



and the form is like this:

<form method="GET" action="/leanRouteWeb/action">



The button looks like this:

<a href="#" class="action-button shadow animate blue">Test Performance</a>



even with this changes I cant reach the Servlet when debuging

Any idea, please?

 
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Should I also change it here?
 
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try replacing:
System.out.println("numberLinesPau");

with

Printwriter pw = new PrintWriter(response.getOutputStream());
pw.println("numberLinesPau");
pw.close();

this is not like a CGI script, you need to write to the servlet output stream.

 
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Isaac Ferguson wrote:Should I also change it here?



NO
 
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See the JspFaq for information on very simply including the contact path in the action URL. You should be doing this for all resources such as action, script files, style sheets, images, and so on.

It's not complicated at all, you simple fetch the application path with an EL expression.
 
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A.J. Côté wrote:or <form method="GET" action=".../action">



This is bad advice. Using page-relative paths in a Java web app is going to cause problems. If not now, then later.

or

<form method="GET" action="/application_path/action">



It's a called the context path, not the "application path".
 
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Bear Bibeault wrote:

A.J. Côté wrote:or <form method="GET" action=".../action">



This is bad advice. Using page-relative paths in a Java web app is going to cause problems. If not now, then later.

or

<form method="GET" action="/application_path/action">



It's a called the context path, not the "application path".



Of course, it is much easier to tell a user that he doesn't know what he is doing and that he needs to learn a bunch of advanced concepts instead of helping him at the level he currently is. We all started somewhere...
 
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A.J. Côté wrote:Of course, it is much easier to tell a user that he doesn't know what he is doing and that he needs to learn a bunch of advanced concepts instead of helping him at the level he currently is. We all started somewhere...



I don't agree. It's true that all beginners tend to make the same mistakes, but handing them a bandaid and hoping they will learn correct terminology and concepts later isn't the way to go, I don't think. That just guarantees more substandard code will be produced and in many cases "later" will never happen if they have something sloppy which works most of the time. And especially in this case we aren't talking about a bunch of advanced concepts, just a couple of basic principles.
 
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Paul Clapham wrote:

A.J. Côté wrote:Of course, it is much easier to tell a user that he doesn't know what he is doing and that he needs to learn a bunch of advanced concepts instead of helping him at the level he currently is. We all started somewhere...



I don't agree. It's true that all beginners tend to make the same mistakes, but handing them a bandaid and hoping they will learn correct terminology and concepts later isn't the way to go, I don't think. That just guarantees more substandard code will be produced and in many cases "later" will never happen if they have something sloppy which works most of the time. And especially in this case we aren't talking about a bunch of advanced concepts, just a couple of basic principles.



You have a point. I guess the right balance is optimal. Rest assure, I am pretty tight with the devs in my team. But for somebody who is trying to submit a plain html form to a servlet, it might be interesting to help him succeed. As a bonus, he will understand better the inner-working of the servlet/jsp/struts or whatever he uses later since he started from scratch.

I have seen developpers with 2 or 3 years experience that know nothing about httpRequest.getParameter, httpResponse.getOutputStream, CGI script were you just read from environment variables and write to standard output. Heck, they haven't got a clue how the browser communicates with their fancy application. This might lead to trouble too...

 
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I am trying with an even more simple example I already worked woth Servlet in the past and this one is just not working I think it is not the itself but the system environent?

The code is:

index.jsp



ConvServlet.java


web.xml




When I press the button in the form it produces a 404 error:



Any idea of why it just doesnt find the resource?

 
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You are not listening. In the following:you should not be hard-coding the context path.

Use the EL expression to get the context path. That way, it can never be wrong.

See the JspFaq for details: https://coderanch.com/how-to/java/ResourceUrlProblems

Doing anything else is not advised.

If it still doesn't work once we're sure that the path is correct, then we know to start diagnosing elsewhere.
 
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I wrote it like this:



and the web.xml


I checked and the content of: ${pageContext.request.contextPath}/ is /conversionMoneda which is the name of the web app.

Then the action is been built like this:



I got 404 error same than before. I use NetBeans running in a mini Mac

 
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Your web.xml indicates that ConvServlet is in a package called "web" but there is no package statement in your code. Maybe you just left that off for brevity, but make sure the package statement is there and that the class file is in /WEB-INF/classes/web.

 
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And btw, your context path looks correct now. Congrats on figuring out the EL code.
 
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There is a package called web, then inside it the is the class ConvServlet. The web.xml indicates that the class is inside the web package. Isnt it?




 
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Yep, "package web;" is what I was looking for. So you're good there.

Do you know how to use the debugger in the web browser to look at the request and response?

Let's start simple. Add this to your processRequest() method:



Try it again. Does that line display in the console?
 
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Nothing in the console, when I debug the request in the browser I get

http://localhost:3308/conversionMoneda/ for the redirectURLCC

thats the only relevant data I got. When I submit the data, it just doesnt in into the Servlet so I cant debug.

Any more idea, please?

 
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Forget the jsp for the moment. What do you get if you enter this in the browser:

localhost:8080/conversionMoneda/ConvServlet

I'm going to enter this code and see what I can see.
 
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If I type this:



I get this:




and If I type this:



I get the same. (Tomcat is config to use the 3308 port)

Any idea, please?


 
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Isaac Ferguson wrote:
Convertir esta cantidad: <input type=”text” name=”valor” value=”${param.valor}”/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">


Did you copy and paste this code from somewhere?

Look carefully at the quotation marks in those lines. See the difference? The second is valid code, the first is not. That's why you are seeing "%E2%80%9D" in your URL.

Fix your quotation marks and you'll be okay.
 
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It's hard to see the difference in the posting. I didn't see it until I copied your code into Netbeans and even then it took a few minutes before I spotted it. The strange URL in the debugger had me puzzled for a bit, then I looked up that encoding. It turns out "%E2%80%9D" is the code for a quotation mark.
 
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I changed the configuration of Tomcat to 8080 and it works now

 
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