Get Parameter Name From Servlet Request

This example illustrates about how to get parameter from jsp page in your servlet. In the jsp (parameter.jsp) page we have taken three input fields having name as firstname, lastname and middle name. We can get values of these fields in our servlet page. When form is submitted the action will call the servlet "GetParameter".

Source code of parameter.jsp:

<%@page language="java" session="true" contentType="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" %>
<b><font color="blue">Please Enter your First Name, Last Name and Middle Name:</font></b><br><br>
<form name="frm" method="post" action="../GetParameter">
<table border = "0">
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td>First Name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name ="firstname" /></td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td>Middle Name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name ="middlename" /></td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td>Last Name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name ="lastname" /></td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td></td>
<td><input type="submit" name="submit"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Running the above jsp program by this url: http://localhost:8080/CodingDiaryExample/JSP/parameter.jsp displays page like below:

Now, the following program illustrates about how to access values ("firstname", "middlename" and "lastname") of jsp file in servlet (GetParameter.java).

Here is the source code of GetParameter.java:


import java.io.*;

import java.util.*;

import javax.servlet.*;

import javax.servlet.http.*;



public class GetParameter extends HttpServlet {

  public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,

  HttpServletResponse response)

  throws IOException, ServletException{

  response.setContentType("text/html");

  PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();  

  String firstName = request.getParameter("firstname");

  String middleName = request.getParameter("middlename");

  String lastName = request.getParameter("lastname");  

  out.println("<b><font color='blue'>Your FirstName is :</font></b>" 

  + "<b>"+ firstName +"</b>" + "<br>");

  out.println("<b><font color='blue'>Your Middle Name is :</font></b>"  

  + "<b>"+ middleName +"</b>" + "<br>");

  out.println("<b><font color='blue'>Your Last Name is :</font></b>"  

  + "<b>"+ lastName +"</b>");

  }

}

In the above servlet, get parameter by the HttpServletRequest object. The getParameter() method returns the value of a request parameter (passed as an argument like: "firstname", "middlename" and "lastname") as a String or null if the parameter does not exist.

Mapping of servlet (GetParameter.java) in web.xml file:

<servlet>
<servlet-name>GetParameter</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>GetParameter</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>GetParameter</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/GetParameter</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

From the above lines in web.xml we are mapping the servlet with url.

If we enters the values like in the figure below

then following output will be displayed.

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