How to set and get an attribute to/from request object in JSP and Servlets ?

Program to demonstrate how to set and get an attribute to/from request object in JSP and Servlets ?

attributes_demo.jsp


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<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Request set and get attribute demo</h1>
 <p>
  In order to set and get attributes in a request object </br>
  see demo below with a example : 
 </p>

 <form action="customer_info_display.jsp" method="post">
  <table cellspacing="5" border="0">
   <tr>
    <td align="right">First Name : </td>
    <td><input type="text" name="firstName"></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td align="right">Last Name : </td>
    <td><input type="text" name="lastName"></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td align="right">Email Address : </td>
    <td><input type="text" name="emailAddress"></td>
   </tr>
   
   <tr>
    <td></td>
    <td align="left"></br><input type="submit" value="Submit"></td>
   </tr>

  </table>
 </form>

</body>
</html>




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<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>

 <%@ page import="com.hubberspot.model.Customer"%>

 <%
  // Get the form requests 
  String firstName = request.getParameter("firstName");
  String lastName = request.getParameter("lastName");
  String emailAddress = request.getParameter("emailAddress");
  
  Customer customer = new Customer(firstName , lastName , emailAddress);
  
  // 1. To set attribute in a request object 
  request.setAttribute("Customer", customer);
 %>
 
 <%
    // 2. To get the attribute set above in a different refernce
    Customer newCustomer = (Customer) request.getAttribute("Customer");
 
 %>
 
 <p>The customer created above at 1 is populated in 2 as : </p>
 
 <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1">
  <tr>
   <td align="right">First Name :</td>
   <%-- Below is the JSP expression used to display string value of an expression --%>
   <td><%=newCustomer.getFirstName()%></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
   <td align="right">Last Name :</td>
   <td><%=newCustomer.getLastName()%></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
   <td align="right">Email Address :</td>
   <td><%=newCustomer.getEmailAddress()%></td>
  </tr>
 </table>
 

</body>
</html>


Output of the program :


attributes_demo.jsp



























customer_info.jsp