href parameter and jsp

[federico tonioni]

should i catch the idcoll parameter in my currentcollectionview.jsp page as request.getParameter("idcoll")?

....// somejsp.jsp
<a href="currentcollectionview.jsp?idcoll=<%=parentCollection%>">
....// currentcollectionview.jsp
...
String col = request.getParameter("idcoll");

[Erik Pragt]

Hello Federico,
if you want to do it like that, that's entirely possible. But if you want to know if there are better ways, than it depends on what you find better. You could use a servlet instead of a jsp, but this depends on a lot of things.
The this I would change if I where you was to change the 'idcoll' to <%= Collection.ID %> (the class collection would have a public static final String ID, which would have a content like 'id', 'collid', or something like that.
This would prevent typos, as you can also change the second statement

String col = request.getParameter("idcoll"); 

to

String col = request.getParameter("<%= Collection.ID %>") ; 

Greetings, Erik Pragt
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[ January 27, 2003: Message edited by: Erik Pragt ]