Re: Selecting values from a html5 form

Hi Jos & Thorsten,

I am sorry that I have not thanked you before for your help.

Thank you again

Regards

Peter

On 27/06/2013 13:39, Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> On 06/27/2013 02:32 PM, Jos Snellings wrote:
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> Hi Jos,
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> nice post! Small enhancement see above.
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>> 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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>>           ...
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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 them as in:
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>>  <map:match pattern="enquiry">
>>             <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 annotation @Inject:
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>>    @Inject
>>     private HttpServletRequest request;
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> Here you can do directly
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>     @RequestParameter
>     private String fromname;
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> 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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>> if you are declaring:
>> 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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