Getting data from the Java bean to be displayed on a JSP page
I've got a forum where a user can register there details and this gets sent to a Servlet and then a Java bean. What I'm having trouble with is that I can't get the data to be displayed on another JSP page when the Java bean is requested. So CreateAccount.jsp allows the user to input into the forum.
The forum is posted to a Servlet(RegisterDetails.java) and sends it to a Java bean (Register.java). Then error.jsp shows this data from the bean. Below is my code. The current code shows each value as null.
Register.java:
package com.cassandra.MrBlabber.servlets;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
@WebServlet("/Register")
public class Register extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
/**
* @see HttpServlet#HttpServlet()
*/
public Register() {
super();
}
/**
* @see HttpServlet#doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
*/
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
RegisterDetails details = new RegisterDetails();
details.setName(request.getParameter("FullName"));
details.setEmail(request.getParameter("EmailAddress"));
details.setPassword(request.getParameter("Password"));
details.setUsername(request.getParameter("Username"));
request.setAttribute("details", details);
getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/Error.jsp").forward(request, response);
}
}
RegisterDetails.java:
package com.cassandra.MrBlabber.servlets;
public class RegisterDetails {
private String fullName;
private String emailAddress;
private String password;
private String username;
public RegisterDetails() {}
public String getName() { return fullName; }
public String getEmailAddress() { return emailAddress; }
public String getPassword() { return password; }
public String getUsername() { return username; }
public void setName(String value) { this.fullName = value; }
public void setEmail(String value) { this.emailAddress = value; }
public void setPassword(String value) { this.password = value; }
public void setUsername(String value) { this.username = value; }
}
CreateAccount.jsp:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/MrBlabber/css/stylesheet.css"/>
<title>MrBlabber/Create an Account</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Section -->
<section>
<!-- Sign Up -->
<article>
<div id="articleWrapper">
<h3>No Account? Sign Up</h3>
<form id="createAccount" onsubmit="return validateForm();" action="Register" name="createAccount" method="POST">
<input type="text" id="name" name="FullName" placeholder="Full Name"/>
<input type="text" id="email" name="EmailAddress" placeholder="Email Address"/>
<input type="password" id="password" name="Password" placeholder="Create a password"/>
<input type="text" id="username" name="Username" placeholder="Choose your username"/>
<input type="submit" value="Sign up for MrBlabber"/>
</form>
</div>
</article>
<article>
<div id="errorMessage" class="errorMessage">
<script src="/MrBlabber/javascript/CreateAccountValidation.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>
</article>
</section>
</body>
</html>
Error.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ page import="com.cassandra.MrBlabber.servlets.RegisterDetails" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>shit</h1>
<jsp:useBean id="RegisterDetails" class="com.cassandra.MrBlabber.servlets.RegisterDetails" scope="session"/>
<jsp:setProperty name="RegisterDetails" property="*"/>
<h1>
Name: <%=RegisterDetails.getName()%><br>
Email: <%=RegisterDetails.getEmailAddress()%><br>
Password: <%=RegisterDetails.getPassword()%><br>
Username: <%=RegisterDetails.getUsername()%><br>
</h1>
</body>
</html>
Answer
First of all, your class RegisterDetails is not a bean because it does not implement the java.io.Serializable interface.
Secondly, you really need to implement some kind of input sanitization for the data coming from the request (to prevent SQL/HTML/Cross-site scripting injections), and if you are going to use beans I guess you should put that inside the bean class.
Third, you could also dispense with the bean concept (meaning you won't need jsp:useBean) and just save the instance of the class RegisterDetails as a regular class object into the session, and then you can pull it from the session on any page as follows:
In the servlet:
session.setAttribute("details", details); //saving your object to the session
In any other page:
RegisterDetails details = (RegisterDetails)session.getAttribute("details");