Not able to print the output on browser

[Jyothirmai Vissapragada]

Hi,

I am preparing for SCWCD exam. I am following Kathy Sierra's textbook - Head First Servlets and JSPs.

I am practicing the programs given in the text book for better understanding. There is a program in chapter-3, where the user will select one of the items (coffee/beer color) from the drop down menu which is a HTML file. Now, based on the user selection, the servlet should give some suggetions that which kind of beer/coffee brands the user may want to try.

Everything is working fine for me except, after the user selects the item and hits the button, there is a file getting created on my machine to which the suggested brands are getting written. I am not able to understand why is it happening. I want the output (brand suggestions) to be displayed on the browser window. Please let me know how can I fix it and what is going to wrong.

Below, I attached my HTML and Servlet codes.

<form action = "CoffeeSelect"> Select Coffee Charateristics <p>Color: <select name="color" size="1"> <option value = "light"> light </option> <option value = "dark"> dark </option> <option value = "amber"> amber </option> <option value = "brown"> brown </option> </select> </p> <br></br> <center> <input type="SUBMIT"></input></center> </form>

My servlet's doGet() and doPost() looks like this:

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException {  
	      doPost(request, response);  
	    }  
    
    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
		
		
		String color = request.getParameter("color");
		
		CoffeeExpert expert = new CoffeeExpert();
		
		List result = expert.getBrands(color);

		response.setContentType("html/text");
		
		PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
		
		out.println("Coffee Selection advice");
		
		Iterator it = result.iterator();
		
		while(it.hasNext())
			out.println("try: "+it.next());
		
	}

Thank you.

KiranJyothi

[DaslanJ Govender]

try response.setContentType("text/html")

[Jyothirmai Vissapragada]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. It worked now.

Have a good day!!!

Jyothi