How Can I retrieve request parameter in sightly

[adobecq-venkat]

User enter search parameter on the web page. I want to pass on that request parameter to back end java class.

How can I do that?

Example:

test-sightly.html?q=market&maxrows=25

Java class SearchHelper

Can someone give example?

Thanks

Venkat

[Kunal_Gaba_]

 I believe your java class extends WCMUse class and you can call getRequest() method to get the request object - https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/develop/ref/javadoc/com/adobe/cq/sightly/WCMUse.html#getReque...()

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

For those reading this thread and wanting to know more about Sightly - there are 2 good community articles on Sighty - here is one that shows how to use Sightly with Java in back end:

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/creating-sightly-component.html

See this new AEM Community article that uses Java, Slighty and Sling Models to build a component that is able to parse a DOM. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/domparser.html

In this example - values that an author enters into a component dialog are passed to the Java back end - such as the URL of the web page to parse. 

In addition to these articles - we have this really good web presentation by Feike: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvFWSQQ_0M

If you want to pass values from a web page (as opposed to a component dialog that an author enters during design time on the Author instance) - I would look at using AJAX to post values to a servlet. Most Sightly components - the values passed to Java are entered into a component dialog.