An example for PostableResource wanted

Mark I. Lubin writes:
 > I went through FancyResource example in doc. Even I have
 > some idea about the installation of the new resources,  I would like to
 > have some simple example for PostableResource,  that I could modify.
 > Say I want to have a Form (with  method="POST"),  from which the server
 > fetching the data and then sending some response back. For instance, I
 > write the string in the form that should be reversed on the server and
 > the result sent back to the user.

Here is a simple shot at the ReverseString resource ( I haven't
compiled it, I will just try writing it). Lets' say we will put this
resource in class w3c.jigsaw.contrib.ReverseString, so here it goes:
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package w3c.jigsaw.contrib;

import java.util.*;

import w3c.jigsaw.http.*;
import w3c.jigsaw.forms.*;

public class ReverseString extends PostableResource {

	public Reply handle(Request request, URLDecoder data) 
		throws HTTPException
	{
		String str = data.getValue("string");
		if ((str == null) || str.equals("")) {
		    Reply reply = request.makeReply(HTTP.OK);
		    reply.setContent("reverse=[]");
		    return reply;
		}
		// Reverse the string (should be some other method, etc)
        	// You could ameliroate this alot, but that's not the point
		char cs[] = new char[str.length()];
		str.getChars(0, cs.length, cs, 0);
		char cr[] = new char[cs.length];       
		for(int i = 0 ; i < cs.length; i++)
		    cr[cs.length-1-i] = cs[i];
        	// Emit reply:
		Reply reply = request.makeReply(HTTP.OK);
		reply.setContent("reverse=["+new String(cr)+"]");
		return reply;
	}

	public ReverseString() {	
	}

}
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AGain I have not compiled this code, and it's too late to try doing it
now. Howver, chances are good that it would run. If it doesn't let me
know !
You will then have to compile/install the resource, but you can follow
the tutorial here.

 >   Also since in Netscape3.0 there is communicatoin between 
 > HTML-Forms and Java-applets it would be useful to have a simple example
 > for communication between Java-applet and Jigsaw( and maybe HTML-Form)

I have some ideas about this, but they are not for now...Basically
Jigsaw should have support for servlets (not the Jeeves kind of
servlets, but really small servers inside the server; which might be
the Jeeves kind, in fact, but with no HTTP in the way ...). For those
of you who have been that far in the code, I mean some enhancements to
the Client API (w3c.jigsaw.http.CLient, which should really be
w3c.jigsaw.daemon.client...).

Anselm.

Received on Saturday, 6 July 1996 23:44:41 UTC