Question

Alright cannot find this anywhere and I was wondering how to grab the values of a text box from a jsp or servlet and display it in another servlet.

Now my issue isn’t passing the data and actually displaying it, my issue is that whenever a space is in the value I can only get that first bit of information. For example:

<form method="post" action="Phase1Servlet">

  <p>Favorite Place:</p> <input type="text" name="place"></div>

  <input id="submit" type="submit"  value="Submit">

</form>

Say The user types in “The Mall”

in the Servlet I use:

String place = request.getParameter("place"); 

Then output the variable place somewhere in my code I only get the word “The”

Do I need to use request.getParameterValues(“place”); instead? If so how do I pass the values from servlet to servlet through a hidden field? When I do this:

String [] placeArr = request.getParameterValues("place");

out.println("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"place\" value="+ placeArr +">");

The hidden field actually stores [Ljava.lang.String;@f61f5c

Do i have to parse this or convert this somehow?

Answer 1

Should be

String placeArr = request.getParameterValue("place");
out.println("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"place\" value=\""+ placeArr +"\">");

Escape the string in the hidden field