Getting value of radio button

[duhit Choudhary]

Hello All,
I made two radio buttons as:

<input type="radio" name="One" value="Send To All" checked="checked" />
<input type="radio" name="One" value="Send To Recent" />

but when i tried to fetch the value of radio button via following line of code:

request.getParameter("Send To All");

I got NullPointerException on the same line. So can anyone tell me the right way to get the value of radio button.

Thanks in Advance

[Devendra Bhati]

Dear friend,

Why you hard coded value of radio control in java code. The best practice says, you need to get the value of input controls dynamically. So try to fetch the values of radio buttons from javaScript/jQuery and then request to server to GET/POST method.

I'm not sure but might getParameter() method will accept radio name instead of value. So please check out this.

All the Best. :)

[Bear Bibeault]

You must use the name, not the value of the radio button.

[duhit Choudhary]

Bear Bibeault wrote:You must use the name, not the value of the radio button.

I have used name with following line of code

request.getParameterValues("One")

But now the problem is it is not giving the string value. i used toString() method for it but still not getting the string. what should i do???

[Bear Bibeault]

getParameterValues() returns a string array. If that's not what you want, why are you calling it?

[duhit Choudhary]

Bear Bibeault wrote:getParameterValues() returns a string array. If that's not what you want, why are you calling it?

request.getParameter("One")

this will not helping me at all... the final thing i want to do is to:

 if(request.getParameter("One") == "SendToAll")

But it is not going inside if(). What i am doing wrong here

[Bear Bibeault]

In Java, how does one compare strings?

Hint: it's not with ==

[duhit Choudhary]

ok.. i got it.
with .equals()!!!