I have a scenario where from one page in AEM, I need to call another AEM page in the same application and I need to pass some hidden parameters. I choose to do it via POST and below are the steps which I followed:
2. In the servlet, using request dispatcher I redirected the same request and response to a different page in doPost method using the following code snippet:
request.getRequestDispatcher("/content/company/en/apps/welcomepage.html").forward(request, response);
When I run the code, I am able to call the servlet through form submission but its not working. In the developer tool I see a 200 call but the page is not loading at all and I see the below error in browser:
Status | 200 |
Message | OK |
Location | /content/company/en/apps/welcomepage |
Parent Location | /content/company/en/apps |
Path | /content/company/en/apps/welcomepage |
Referer | http://localhost:7502/en/apps/welcome-pages/companypage.html |
ChangeLog | <pre></pre> |
If I try the same code in doGet method it works fine. Also if I use response.sendRedirect("/content/company/en/apps/welcomepage.html") it works fine too. But the problem with this is it initiates it as a new request to the page and it looses all the parameters which I get from the form submission. Could someone please let me know like how can I redirect a request to a page in AEM via POST since I need to pass some hidden parameters whic should not be visible in the url ?
Just wondering here - are you following an online doc for this use case - where did you learn this was best practice?
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Its just the thought I got. The use case is to call a page on AEM by passing some hidden params to the page which are used for some business reasons. I would appreciate if you could let me know if there is any other way to do it ?
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I have never read an article on this. That is why I asked.
I am searching to see what would be considered best practice for this use case.
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Thank you !!
I am looking for a way to call a page in AEM via POST. I am able to do the same in a non AEM application.
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Here is some AEM Sample code that may help and shows use of this API:
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The problem is very simple: Your servlet is not called. You get back the output of the DefaultPostServlet, which just persists (or tries to persist) the posted parameters on the resource.
Make sure that you register your own servlet correctly. What you could do is to register it to a certain selector and then do the POST request to /contente/mysite/mypage.myselector.html; then your servlet should be called.
Jörg
Thanks for the reply !! Below is the code snippet:
Servlet code:
@SlingServlet(paths = { "/bin/rap/welcomepage" }, methods = {"GET,""POST"})
public class RapWelcomePageServlet extends SlingAllMethodsServlet {
/**
*
*/
private static final long serialVersionUID = 7184595514100008389L;
@Override
protected void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
Map<String,String> paramMap = request.getParameterMap();
request.setAttribute("WelcomePageParams", paramMap);
request.getRequestDispatcher("/content/company/en/apps/welcomepage.html").forward(getRequest, response);
}
@Override
protected void doPost(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
doGet(request,response);
}
}
UI code:
var form = jQuery('<form></form>');
form.attr("method", "post");
form.attr("action", "/bin/rap/welcomepage");
jQuery(document.body).append(form);
form.submit();
While submittion th form in the action attribute, I have given the servlet path. What else am I missing here for POST request ?
Could you please give me an example ?
@Override protected void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { //Map<String,String> paramMap = request.getParameterMap(); /*Enumeration paramNames = request.getParameterNames(); HttpSession session = request.getSession(false); while(paramNames.hasMoreElements()){ String element = (String) paramNames.nextElement(); String value = request.getParameter(element); //response.setHeader(element, value); session.setAttribute(element, value); }*/ GetRequest getRequest = new GetRequest(request); request.getRequestDispatcher("/content/pnc-com/en/apps/appointment-setting/schedule-appointment.html").forward(getRequest, response); //response.sendRedirect("/content/pnc-com/en/apps/appointment-setting/schedule-appointment.html"); } @Override protected void doPost(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { doGet(request,response); /*Map<String,String> paramMap = request.getParameterMap(); request.setAttribute("WelcomePageParams", paramMap); //response.getWriter().write("success welcome page servlet"); request.getRequestDispatcher("/en/personal-banking.html").forward(request, response);*/ }
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Ok, looks like the problem is a bit different. Your servlet is called, and for me it seems that the forward is actually working. But not as expected.
I think that after you called
request.getRequestDispatcher("/content/company/en/apps/welcomepage.html").forward(getRequest, response);
request.getMethod() still returns "POST". Have you tried to wrap the request and return in the getMethod() method a "GET" (which is likely what you want. [1] can help you to easily do this.
Jörg
ps: Just found that bsloki was already referring to the correct solution (another post in this forum). So the credit should go to him!
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You can also refer this thread
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Thanks bsloki and Jorg Hoh for the suggestion. I also found a similar solution in the following link too:
http://suryakand-shinde.blogspot.in/2016/07/aem-form-submission-handling-post.html
http://suryakand-shinde.blogspot.in/2016/07/aem-form-submission-handling-post.html
As per the above link:
In AEM every page (.html) has a primary type jcr:primaryType = cq:Page and there are set of scripts that are mapped with this primary type which intercepts request and renders a page differently based on factors like selector, type of request method (by default only GET is handled) etc. You can find these mapping scripts for cq:Page under the folder /libs/cq/Page(in AEM 6.2). One of script under this folder is external.POST.jsp and this is the script which is responsible for handling a POST request with “.external” selector. If you look at the implementation of external.POST.jsp you’ll notice that implementation is very simple, it just creates a wrapper around existing POST request and overrides getMethod() method of SlingHttpServletRequestWrapper class so that it returns GET and forward control page URL (by removing selector) with this wrapped request and response object.
I tried this implementation and I was able to redirect my request to a new page and also I am able to capture the request parameters. But the problem I am facing now is once I redirect it to a new page the page keeps on loading again and again. I am thinking the "Sling Post servlet" or "Default Servlet" is getting called again and again. Did anyone face this issue ?
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You can use the "Recent requests" view in the web console ( /system/console/requests) to actually check what the request is internally doing. Every include and every forward is listed there. Should give you insight what's going on.
Jörg
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