Servlet filter being invoked twice per request by Container.

[Sivapraveen Chandana]

Hi,
I am facing a peculiar problem in my web application. Whenever I click on a button in a jsp, the web container is invoking the servlet filter twice. The entire flow is thus, getting executed twice. The action to be performed is insert a row in a table in database.

Due to the above problem, each time I submit a form, instead of one entry, two entries are made in the database table.

Have you faced such a problem ?
Your advice/insight is appreciated.

Thanks in advance..
Praveen.

[William Brogden]

I think we would need to see the deployment descriptor (web.xml) that defines the servlet and filter before taking a guess.

Exactly what kind of request does this "button in a jsp" create?

[picky-mode]Your jsp creates an html page, therefore the button is not really "in a jsp"[/picky-mode]

Bill

[Abdul Rahman]

Hi Praveen,

The filter is used for both the incoming request and the outgoing response. Have you duplicated the code in the response part of the filter as well ?

Please do share us the part of the code concerned. This will help us to analyse better your problem.

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[Bear Bibeault]

Are you doing any client-side validation in JavaScript? I've seen this happen sometimes due to faulty form submission logic.

[Sivapraveen Chandana]

Thanks to all for your inputs..

I found out the cause of this. In my jsp, I was using

<html:submit ...................../> earlier which was causing the problem.

I changed the above to

<html:button...................../> which resolved the problem.

On clicking the button, a javascript function is invoked.

Thanks again..

[Sivapraveen Chandana]

Hi All,
To add to the previous reply, the mistake was that I was using <html:submit.../> which submits the form when the button is clicked. Additionally, I was using the onclick property to call a javascript function which contained the code

document.form.submit();

So, the request was being submitted twice.

Using <html:button.../> does not submit the form on clicking the button. Instead, we have to use document.form.submit(); to submit it.

Thanks..