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Passing objects via form submit

 
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I have an ArrayList object in a JSP page. I would like to pass it to another JSP page that is being served on another web app server.

I cannot set the object on the session object.

I'm submitting the form using JavaScript.

How do I do it?
 
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You can't. The JSP is executed on the server and your array list object goes out of scope long before the user gets a chance to submit the form on the client.

Please read this article for a better understanding of how JSPs operate.
 
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Originally posted by Sunil Kumar Jakkaraju:

I cannot set the object on the session object.



Sure you can. It's easy.
 
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Thanks Bear,

I might not have framed my question properly.

What I need to accomplish is to submit a request to another web server from a JSP page.

Initially, at the time when the JSP page is rendered, it gets an ArrayList object. This object has to be passed while requesting to another web server. This object can be retained in the page by setting it to session. But it is not enough when this object needs to be passed to different web application running in different web server.

A URL http://anotherwebserver ortno/anotherwebapp/SomeServlet is called from a javascript submit. This servlet does some background processing using the ArrayList object.


How can this be done?
[ December 09, 2006: Message edited by: Sunil Kumar Jakkaraju ]
 
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You most definitely cannot pass an object from one server to another. The only means you have is to pass data as request parameters.

If you are submitting a form, you can set the values into hidden elements.
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If he uses web services, think he should be able to?
 
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Can we back up a minute here.
Although the original poster thought in terms of passing an ArrayList object, lets think of just passing an ordered set of values. That could be as simple as hidden form values with names that transmit the order.



etc etc

Naturally the target web app will have to extract the form values and put them in order in a new ArrayList object.

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Originally posted by Chengwei Lee:
If he uses web services, think he should be able to?



Using something like SOAP you can, but that's quite different from submitting a form through a JSP.
And just like RMI calls you're not in fact passing an object, but rather you're serialising an object and thus passing a copy of that object.
 
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Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:

... but rather you're serialising an object and thus passing a copy of that object.



More specifically, you're passing a textual (XML) representation of that object's data.
 
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Serialize and use URL encode maybe applying something like 64base up front.
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