Re: sending xml response from servlet

Hi Aaron,
   Could you please post your whole servlet code with the sevlet doPost?It
would be really helpful.
Thank You.
Celarin

Aaron Reed wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Iñaki,
> 
> I am no servlet or java guru by any stretch of the imagination, but this 
> is what I did to build a simple servlet that got a xml document from 
> xforms, tweaked a few text nodes in it (via the method 
> changePassword()), and then sent back a xml response to replace the 
> instance that was sent:
> 
> public void doWork(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
>   throws ServletException, IOException {
>    
>    String contentType = req.getContentType();
>    if(contentType.equalsIgnoreCase("text/xml") || 
> contentType.equalsIgnoreCase("application/xml")) {
>     InputStream inputStream = req.getInputStream();
>      DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
> DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
>      try {
>        DocumentBuilder docBuilder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
>        Document doc = docBuilder.parse(inputStream);
>        if(doc != null) {
>         boolean result = changePassword(doc);
>         if (result == true) {
>            resp.setContentType(contentType);
>            // following code serializes dom to xml file
> 
>                OutputFormat of =  new OutputFormat(doc);
>                of.setIndenting(false);
>                ServletOutputStream outputStream = resp.getOutputStream();
>                XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer();
>                serializer.setOutputFormat(of);
>                serializer.setOutputByteStream(outputStream);
>                DOMSerializer domSerializer = serializer.asDOMSerializer();
>                domSerializer.serialize(doc);
>                outputStream.flush();
>                outputStream.close();
>         }
>        }
>      }
>      catch (Exception e) {
>       e.printStackTrace();
>      }
>    }
> 
>  }
> 
> Again, I don't know if this is the way a 'real' app designer would do 
> it, but it worked for me in my little test scenario.
> 
> Good luck,
> --Aaron
> 
> 
> Iñaki Salinas Bueno wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Can someone recommend me a set of libraries that allow a servlet 
>> receive/send XML documents from/to xforms? I have found several 
>> libraries, but I don't know which is more adapted for what I want to do.
>> 
>> I'm using xforms in client side and a servlet for xindice (DB manager) 
>> calls in server side.
>> 
>> The servlet gets the xml document from xforms and add it in the DB 
>> correctly (I used a Xindice web application example and the tip 'Xforms 
>> tip: Accepting XForms data in Java 
>> <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/x-xformstipjava/index.html>' 
>> for its construction), but I don't know how can I get a XML document 
>> from DB and put it in the response object of the servlet.
>> 
>> The example of the tip works with strings, so following it for the 
>> response I would have to take the XML document of the DB, transform it 
>> into a string, and then send it. Cannot be the XML document sent as 
>> application/xml without transforming it into a string?
>> 
>> Maybe questions are more java related than xforms, but they are 
>> working-with-xml related so I think that I can found help in this forum.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Iñaki
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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