Diff getNamedDispatcher() & getRequestDispatcher()

[Purujit Saha]

Can anybody explain whats the Difference between getNamedDispatcher() &
getRequestDispatcher() methods of javax.servlet.ServletContext Interface.

[Narendra Dhande]

Hi

Hope this Help

Thanks

[Rodrigo Alvarez]

Hi,

The difference is the accpetable values of the String argument:

ServletContext.getRequestDispatcher(String arg1)
ServletContext.getNamedDispatcher(String arg2)

arg1 must be an absolute URL (starting with a '/') targeting a valid servlet or jsp file. This URL being associated to the servlet with a <servlet-mapping> element in the DD

arg2 must be the name of a servlet, as given by the <servlet-name> sub-element of the <servlet> element of the DD.

Note that you also have

ServletRequest.getRequestDispatcher(String arg3)

=> arg3 may be both a relative (not starting with '/') or relative (to this request) URL.


Cheers

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[Rodrigo Alvarez]

Hi,

Ok, corrected, sorry for the inconvenience. I hope the new one is acceptable

Cheers,

Svend

[Steven Colley]

But the mainly difference between these methods is that the "getNamedDispatcher()" method from (ServletContext interface) does not add some request "attributes" to the request operation. It means that the included or forwarded page are not able to get some attributes from the request sent.

Attributes:

javax.servlet.include.request_uri
javax.servlet.include.servlet_path
javax.servlet.include.context_path

javax.servlet.forward.request_uri
javax.servlet.forward.servlet_path
javax.servlet.forward.context_path
javax.servlet.forward.query_string

and another aside here:
* it does not take a forwad slash. (runtime error).

Hope it help you!!

cya!