Get checked files in Content Center to Action menu Servlet

I'm creating a new custom Action menu option where I call to a Servlet and I want to get all the files checked in the Content Center frame to be sent to that servlet. Check the following image:

The problem I found is that I don't get any attribute nor parameter in the request variable of the servlet with the reference to these files. I have researched in this forum and found something similar to what I want to do in this post:

/t5/TeamSite/Target-for-a-custom-menu-item/m-p/168361/highlight/true#M109033

And it explains that setting the target="fs_list" in the customization XML of the menu will do the job, but it seems I'm still missing something because I don't get any attribute or parameter with the reference to these files. When I log what I get as parameter, I get the following::

//Piece of code

        Enumeration<String> paramsEnum = request.getAttributeNames();


       while(paramsEnum.hasMoreElements()){
           String param = paramsEnum.nextElement();
           ServletRequestAttributes attribute = (ServletRequestAttributes)request.getAttribute(param);

           LOGGER.debug("param: " + param);
           LOGGER.debug("attribute: " + attribute.getClass().getName());
       }

//Result:

2014-12-09 09:48:33,513 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-1] DEBUG com.herbalife.servlet.G11NLocale () - param: org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener.REQUEST_ATTRIBUTES
2014-12-09 09:48:33,514 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-1] DEBUG com.herbalife.servlet.G11NLocale () - attribute: org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade@4a25ab

Does anybody know what can I do get the files in the request? Thank you very much!!

Platform: TeamSite 7.4.1

System: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64 Bit

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Rick Poulin

Parameters and attributes are NOT the same. In your code snippet, you're only looking at attributes. What you're getting passed will be a parameter, in particular one with name "vpath".

String selectedVpaths[] = request.getParameterValues("vpath");

Or if you want to scan all available parameters, use the request.getParameter() family of methods.

jurgenVanBuuren

I already tried this approach and I don't get any parameter. This is the code I used:

//****************START OF CODE*******************

        Enumeration<String> attributesEnum = request.getAttributeNames();


       while(attributesEnum.hasMoreElements()){
           String param = attributesEnum.nextElement();
           ServletRequestAttributes attribute = (ServletRequestAttributes)request.getAttribute(param);

           LOGGER.debug("param: " + param);
           LOGGER.debug("attribute: " + attribute.getClass().getName());
       }

       Enumeration<String> paramsEnum = request.getParameterNames();
       LOGGER.debug("paramsEnum has any element? " + paramsEnum.hasMoreElements());
       while(paramsEnum.hasMoreElements()){
           String param = paramsEnum.nextElement();
           String paramValue = request.getParameter(param);

           LOGGER.debug("param: " + param);
           LOGGER.debug("value: " + paramValue);
       }


       LOGGER.debug("Executing G11N/Locale EA generation by Get Method");

       LOGGER.debug("request queryString: " + request.getQueryString());

//****************END OF CODE*******************

And this is the output:

2014-12-15 13:42:47,675 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-1] DEBUG com.herbalife.servlet.G11NLocale () - param: org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener.REQUEST_ATTRIBUTES
2014-12-15 13:42:47,676 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-1] DEBUG com.herbalife.servlet.G11NLocale () - attribute: org.springframework.web.context.request.ServletRequestAttributes
2014-12-15 13:42:47,676 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-1] DEBUG com.herbalife.servlet.G11NLocale () - paramsEnum has any element? false
2014-12-15 13:42:47,676 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-1] DEBUG com.herbalife.servlet.G11NLocale () - Executing G11N/Locale EA generation by Get Method
2014-12-15 13:42:47,676 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-1] DEBUG com.herbalife.servlet.G11NLocale () - request queryString: null

So this resulted to be worse than expected because there is no parameter in the request. What else can I try? Thank you for your help!

Rick Poulin

jurgenVanBuuren wrote:
2014-12-15 13:42:47,676 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-1] DEBUG com.herbalife.servlet.G11NLocale () - Executing G11N/Locale EA generation by Get Method

This line seems wrong to me. Usually, when you have a CCPro menu item, it gets called via an HTTP POST. What does your ui_custom.xml look like?

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jurgenVanBuuren

Here is attached ui_custom.xml. Thanks!

Rick Poulin

Try removing the onClick="" because that's presumably disabling the JS handler that uses POST instead of GET.

Also, you should consider replacing all instances of your company name in your posts to something like "com.mycompany", for security/privacy reasons.

jurgenVanBuuren

Yes!! Removing onClick="" worked as desired!! Finally I can get the parameters from the request. Thank you very much for your help!!