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How to read checkbox values from the HTML form data in AEM | AEM Servlet by Keshav Chaurasiya

Abstract

Group checkbox values from the HTML form data in to AEM Servlet
countriesForm.html

ServletFormDataCheckbox.class
package com.kkc.core.servlets

import com.day.cq.commons.jcr.JcrConstants;
import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.sling.api.resource.Resource;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.HttpConstants;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.ServletResolverConstants;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingAllMethodsServlet;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingSafeMethodsServlet;
import org.apache.sling.servlets.annotations.SlingServletResourceTypes;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Component;
import org.osgi.service.component.propertytypes.ServiceDescription;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import javax.servlet.Servlet;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import java.io.IOException;

import static jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.regexp.joni.Config.log;

@Component(service = Servlet.class, immediate = true, property = { "description=Form Data Checkbox Servlet",
ServletResolverConstants.SLING_SERVLET_METHODS + "="
+ HttpConstants.METHOD_POST,
ServletResolverConstants.SLING_SERVLET_PATHS + "=/bin/countryForm" })
public class ServletFormDataCheckbox extends SlingAllMethodsServlet {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ServletFormDataCheckbox.class);

@Override
protected void doPost(final SlingHttpServletRequest req,
final SlingHttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
final Resource resource = req.getResource();
resp.setContentType("text/plain");
resp.getWriter().write("Title = " + resource.getValueMap().get(JcrConstants.JCR_TITLE));

String[] values = req.getParameterValues("country");

log.info("Selected Countries are :");

for( String value : values )
{
log.info(" country name "+ value);
}
}
}

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