Re: Selecting values from a html5 form

On 06/27/2013 02:32 PM, Jos Snellings wrote:

Hi Jos,

nice post! Small enhancement see above.

> Hi Peter,
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> In the sitemap you have access to request parameters via Jexl:
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> <map:match pattern="enquiry">
>       <map:generate type="someGeneration">
>              <map:parameter name="from"
> value="{jexl:cocoon.request.parameter.fromname}"/>
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> However, it may be far more convenient to use the HttpRequest, as it
> is exposed in different ways:
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> 1. if you want to send your user's inputs to a controller to handle
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>             <controller:call controller="rest-controller"
> select="some.package.EnquiryController">
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>             </controller:call>
>         </map:match>
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> The http request is accessible by just declaring it with the
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>     private HttpServletRequest request;
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Here you can do directly

    @RequestParameter
    private String fromname;

salu2

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> In your "doPost" method (or even doGet) you can use the request:
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> String fromName = request.getParameter("fromname");
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> Instead of sending the input to a controller, it may happen that there
> is little to control, and you just want to do a model generation as a
> response.
> In that case:
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> public class SomeViewGenerator extends AbstractSAXGenerator {
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> You may override the "setup" member :
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> public void setup(Map<String, Object> parameters) {
> try {
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>     request = HttpContextHelper.getRequest(parameters);
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> The setup member is just called at pipeline setup, and when this
> happens in a web application context, the http request is just one of
> the parameters.
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> I hope this little expose helps,
> Jos
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> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Peter Sparkes <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     I want to use a html5 form to pass values into my sitemap eg
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>         <form action="enquiry" method="?" >
>             <input type="text" name="fromname"    placeholder="Your
>     Name"   required=''/>
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>     How do I pass "fromname" into "enquiry"
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>     Regards
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>     Peter
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