Question

I want to pass a variable to ContentList.jsp…. how do I do that? Can I add it to the dispatcher or the request? Is the response a reference? So if I add the parameter to the request object, will it already be accessible within ContentList.jsp?

public void loadView (HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
        throws ServletException, IOException {
    RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("ContentList.jsp");

    response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");

    System.out.println("MyServlet::LoadView() success");

    dispatcher.forward(request, response);
}

Merry Christmas!

Answer 1

You can set the parameter by using

request.setAttribute()

then dispatch the request and in JSP you retrieve it with

request.getAtrribute()