Servlet within a list within a jsp file

Question

Is it possible to link a servlet within a list within a .jsp file ?

<form>
<ul id="nav">
    <li class="current"><a href="HomeClientServlet">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="TransactionsServlet">Transactions</a></li>
    <li><a href="StartTransferServlet">Transfer</a></li>
</ul>
</form>

The upper code wont work and im not sure how to do this.

*NOTE - The servlet needs to run doPost and not doGet.

As Jigar Joshi said I have tried to do this:

It didnt work and then i tried doing this instead:

    <form>
    <ul id="nav">
        <li class="current"><a href="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/HomeClientServlet">Home</a></li>
        <li><a href="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/TransactionsServlet">Transactions</a></li>
        <li><a href="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/StartTransferServlet">Transfer</a></li>
    </ul>
</form>

This one is invalid

<form>
<ul id="nav">
    <li class="current"><form action="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/HomeClientServlet" method="POST"><input type="submit">Home</form></li>
</ul></form>

take a look at this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349633/servlets-doget-and-dopost and you'll have a better idea of what you need to do — ikumen, Jun 18 '13 at 04:30

jmj · Answer 1 · 2013-06-17T21:53:32.443

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clicking on valid anchor by default makes a GET request, if you want to make a POST instead then either write javascript to handle on click and make POST or place a tiny form instead of anchor

replace anchor tag with something like below

<form action="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/TransactionsServlet" method="POST">
  <input type="SUBMIT">
</form>

edited Jun 17 '13 at 21:53

answered Jun 17 '13 at 21:42

jmj

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Can you explain me how to change or make POST ? Like in code cause im not sure I understand what you meant – Anonymous Jun 17 '13 at 21:51
Its invalid to put form inside li tag – Anonymous Jun 17 '13 at 21:59
remove li then or [write javascript to make post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/133925/javascript-post-request-like-a-form-submit) – jmj Jun 17 '13 at 22:00
If I remove li tag then this thread is obsolete cause the whole point was to make the
link to servlet doPost. I could remove the li tag but then I stand without a nav bar. And javascript is not my stongest language. But thanks for the try

Anonymous

Jun 17 '13 at 22:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 18 '13 at 04:19

You can do something like



    < form method="post" action="<%=application.getContextPath()%>/Controller">
    < ul>
    < li> < a href="javascript:callController()"> Controller < /a> < /li>
    < /ul>

And in the script part

function callController()
{
   ------- whatever be you want to do....
}

Servlet within a list within a jsp file

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