How to manually parse query args?

Hi all,

I was puzzled for a while as to why Tomcat does not seem to parse the query string in in the PUT data of the doPut method on my servlet. The effect of this is that it doesn't populate parameterMap in doPut. I found the answer on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/855835/servlet-parameters-and-doput

My question now is, once I retrieve the PUT data into a string, how can I manually parse the query arguments into name-value pairs? It would be fairly easy to write this code myself, but this seems like such an easy, obvious thing to be able to do, I don't want to duplicate work that has likely already been done. This method is almost certainly to be found inside of Tomcat, but it may not be publicly exposed, and I can't seem to find it.

Please let me know what you think. Thanks,

Jake

I wouldn't use a Tomcat-proprietary method even if it were made public. Ties you to a a particular container, and that's a poor practice indeed.

I don't know of any available APIs that you can use, but perhaps there might be one somewhere in the Jakarta Commons project set. Personally, I'd just write a simple method to do it myself.

Bear Bibeault wrote:I wouldn't use a Tomcat-proprietary method even if it were made public. Ties you to a a particular container, and that's a poor practice indeed.

I don't know of any available APIs that you can use, but perhaps there might be one somewhere in the Jakarta Commons project set. Personally, I'd just write a simple method to do it myself.

I used the parse code here:

http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/CGI-with-Java.html

Works quite well,

Jake