Passing values from replicants to Call Server

pbose

Hi,

Wondering if any body has some brilliant idea of passing field values from a replicant to Call Server servlet?

To clarify I have a replicant block say "User". User has multiple fields like "name", "age", "zip" etc. Now on save of the form I would like make a Call Server call to a servlet which will be passed this information of potentially multiple users as parameters and the servlet will in turn store the information in a database.

The ideal would be to pass the XPath of the (main) replicant item to the Servlet and then using api.IWDatacapture.getItem to get values of all fields from individual replicant instance. But any field value from DC frame accessed in such fashion is confined within javascript of the servlet and can not be accessed within java code.

Other solution would be to create a long string with joing all field values from all replicant instance and delimiting by two or more characters. Pass that string to the servlet as parameter and then process the string to get values inside the servlet. While this works but can not pass as an elegant solution.

Appreciate if any one could throw a better solution.

Thanks much

-PB

ISCBorisB

Hi, Wondering if any body has some brilliant idea of passing field values from a replicant to Call Server servlet? To clarify I have a replicant block say "User". User has multiple fields like "name", "age", "zip" etc. Now on save of the form I would like make a Call Server call to a servlet which will be passed this information of potentially multiple users as parameters and the servlet will in turn store the information in a database. The ideal would be to pass the XPath of the (main) replicant item to the Servlet and then using api.IWDatacapture.getItem to get values of all fields from individual replicant instance. But any field value from DC frame accessed in such fashion is confined within javascript of the servlet and can not be accessed within java code. Other solution would be to create a long string with joing all field values from all replicant instance and delimiting by two or more characters. Pass that string to the servlet as parameter and then process the string to get values inside the servlet. While this works but can not pass as an elegant solution. Appreciate if any one could throw a better solution. Thanks much -PB

Lacking desired brilliance... Why don't you run a workflow on Save, parse a DCR and save information in a DataBase?
It is standard, supported, boring and "can not pass as an elegant solution" but... It'll work without undue hassle