Discussion on doGet method

[Abhay Choubey]

Hi All,

What will be happen when we do not override doGet() method.

Thanks in advance
Abhay

[sudipto shekhar]

Did you try creating a servlet without overriding any of the http (get/post) ?

Did the request go the servlet? I suppose these are the questions in a beginners mind which should be tried and tested on your own.

Just that you can create a topic and get easy answers, will only make your ability to understand and troubleshoot your issues.

Any doubts after, with what you have tried, are always welcome.

Enjoy!!

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Abhay Choubey wrote:
What will be happen when we do not override doGet() method.

what is your observation?

[Abhay Choubey]

Hi,

According to me i am telling to the container that this servlet will not support HTTP get request. It is right

Abhay

[Ulf Dittmer]

That's easy to test, no?

[Abhay Choubey]

I have searched any studying the book and got this idea. if it is wrong than what is correct answer of this.

please help me

Abhay

[Sergey Baranov]

It's all in the documentation:

Overriding this method to support a GET request also automatically supports an HTTP HEAD request. A HEAD request is a GET request that returns no body in the response, only the request header fields.

When overriding this method, read the request data, write the response headers, get the response's writer or output stream object, and finally, write the response data. It's best to include content type and encoding. When using a PrintWriter object to return the response, set the content type before accessing the PrintWriter object.

[Vishal Trivedi]

Hi All,

This is my first reply so pkz excuse me for mistakes.

The doGet() and doPost methods are only supported by httpServlet.
So you can use them while creating an httpServlet

and the default implementation of these methods is that you get output saying that this method is not supported.

Please correct me if i am wrong


Thanks and Regards

[German Gonzalez-Morris]

All these seven HTTP methods are supported: GET, POST, HEAD, TRACE , PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS
Although you'll probably only use POST and GET.

If you do not override doGet then you will get an error if sned a GET request:
in Tomcat, something like :

HTTP Status 405 - HTTP method GET is not supported by this URL