Servlet Utilities

Introduction To Tek271 Servlet Utilities

A Java open source library of Servlet utilities.

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This software is open source, free, and uses LGPL license.

tek271.servletUtilieties.2008.05.26.zip: Source, JAR, JavaDocs.

Java Docs.

1. Introduction

This is a simple library of servlet-related utilities. The following gives a high level summary of each class in the library:

    1. ServletIO: Methods to write messages and exception's stack trace to the response, dump a request to the response, and to read files from file system.

    2. ServletUtilities: Different utility methods, like forward, redirect, and accessing session attributes.

    3. RequestReader: Read request's data into a bean whose properties names should match the names of the request's parameters, taking care also of requests that contain uploaded files. This is a very handy class to read uploaded file.

The following examples show how to use the RequestReader class.

Example 1: Copy request's data to an existing bean

RequestReader rr= new RequestReader(request); rr.copyToBean(myBean); // myBean should have been instantiated before// now myBean's properties or public fields contain the request's parameters.

Example 2: Copy request's data to a new bean

RequestReader rr= new RequestReader(request); MyClass myBean= rr.toBean(MyClass.class);

Example 3: Read request's data that can include uploaded files

String uploadDir= "upload/dir/"; String fileNameSuffix= ".up"; // uploaded files will be named with .up suffix RequestReader rr= new RequestReader(request, uploadDir, fileNameSuffix); MyClass myBean= rr.toBean(MyClass.class); if (rr.hasUploads()) { Map<String, String> uploads= rr.getUploadedFiles(); for (String fileName: uploads.keySet() ) { // fileName is the name of the file as determined by the client String filePath= uploads.get(fileName); // filePath is the path and name to the file stored on the server // ... do something with the uploaded file } }

2. Requirements

This library requires JRE 1.5 or higher. Additionally, the JAR files included with the download lib directory are also required.

Changes

Version 1.00, 2008.05.26

First public release