HFSJ: Ch 6 Mock Question Correct?

[Manuj Bawa]

Hi,

I was going through the mock and found the question 1 of CH 6 mock exam (pg 265) confusing:

The method doGet declares input arguments as "req" & "res" but accesses "request" in the next few lines of code. Is this correct? according to me there should be no correct answer and uncommenting anything will result in compile time error.

Can the method declare the argument names as something else and still access "request" like in the following code?

 
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws IOException, ServletException
{
  request.getSession().setAttribute("key", "value");
}
 

Is the above correct?

Thanks,
Manuj

[Narendra Dhande]

Hi,

I think it is typo. It should be req.getSession...


Thanks

[Vishnu Prakash]

Check out the errata session Here
[ November 13, 2005: Message edited by: Vishnu Prakash ]

[Kuppusamy Venkatasubramanian]

Hi,

The errata confirms that it should be req and res and not request and response.

Regards,
SAM..

[Chris Jak]

Can somebody please show me where I can find the errata for the HFSJ book?

[Radhika Jonnalagadda]

Hey Chris,
This is the link for ERRATA.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/headservletsjsp/errata/headservletsjsp.confirmed

[Chris Jak]

Thanks Radhika. After posting the question, I realized I should have searched the forum before posting. I found a lot of threads with the link.