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Hi,
I have a strange problem regarding my web app. Basically there are a couple of functionalities where I submit a form with GET or POST and sometimes (not always, no pattern found, just submitting a form after calling some js) I don't get the parameters sent at the server. I put a sniffer and checked that the parameters always leave the browser. Then I have a System.out.println at my first filter (in doFilter) of request.getParameterMap.keySet() and when the problem occurs the println shows empty parameters ([]). Somehow the parameters disappear. This happens with the application running on a Tomcat 5.0.28 and also on a Websphere 5. The only clue that I have is that the Velocity pages with the forms where this happens has also previous calls to serverside methods via JSon-RPC. I see the JSon-RPC calls on the sniffer, but I cannot seem to connect them with the problem since there's no exception or error coming from json and since json runs in a different servlet. I really need help on this, any ideas?

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Federico
 
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to debug it, you can compare the code that works versus the code that doesnt work. you might some clue there.

as you mentioned, that it worked some times
 
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I mean sometimes with the same code (!).
Anyway I've found the problem. I'll try to explain it. The object registered for the JSon-RPC bridge was an inner class. The method accessed via JSon in this inner class then calls a method in its outter class. The outter class has a reference to the last HttpServletRequest. When thru the JSon call any code does a request.getParameter("anything"), although the logic goes ok, the next submit SOMETIMES looses its parameters. I reproduced the bug just with one line (the getparameter one). The failure seems to happen 1 out of 5 or 6 times. When I commented the request.getparameter lines (that has no sense in the JSon calls anyway) the problem didn't appear anymore. So one IF (if(JSonCall)) did the workaround. I still don't know if it's a JSon-RPC-Java bug. I hope my issue helps.

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Thank you for posting back.
Sounds like a hell of a problem to debug.
 
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