Parsing requestparam - External

jsankara

Hi,

I need to parse the request parameters from the URL..
So I created an External Object (shown below)

public Document getPromo(RequestContext context) {
HttpServletRequest request = context.getRequest();
System.out.println("PromotionContentProvider.getPromo() - start");
Object address = request.getParameter("address");
System.out.println("PromotionContentProvider.getPromo() URI"
+ request.getRequestURI());
System.out.println("PromotionContentProvider.getPromo() URL"
+ request.getRequestURL().toString());
System.out.println("PromotionContentProvider.getPromo() QS - "
+ request.getQueryString());
System.out.println("PromotionContentProvider.getPromo() Address Param - " + address);
org.dom4j.Document doc = Dom4jUtils.newDocument();
doc.addElement("data").addElement("something");
return doc;
}

Actual URL being hit:
http://server1.app.com:8080/test/NewBrand.page?&address=AZ&city=PHX

Log has the below output:

PromotionContentProvider.getPromo() URI /test/NewBrand.page
PromotionContentProvider.getPromo() URL http://server1.app.com:8080/test/NewBrand.page
PromotionContentProvider.getPromo() QS - address=AZ&city=PHX
PromotionContentProvider.getPromo() Address Param - null

I was able get the request params using request.getQueryString() but not by using request.getParameter("address")

Any thoughts ?

Bowker

The code below is an excerpt of what we do to achieve this.

Something close to this works in our environment and is not guaranteed to work nor should it be assumed that it will work in your environment. etc etc etc. Basically, I provide this as an example of something that might work somewhere, but use it at your own risk.


[PHP]public org.dom4j.Document getEnvironmentDoc(RequestContext context) {
org.dom4j.Document doc = null;
try {
HttpServletRequest request = context.getRequest();
Element params = doc.getRootElement().addElement("params");

Enumeration pns = request.getParameterNames();

while (pns.hasMoreElements()) {
String pn = pns.nextElement();
params.addElement(pn).addCDATA(request.getParameter(pn));
}
} catch (Exception e) {
}
return doc;
}[/PHP]