passing data from a servlet to javascript code in an Ajax application? [duplicate]
I have a simple jsp/servlet application and I want to add AJAX feature to this app. I use JQuery , but it doesn't matter what javascript framework I use. This is my code:
<script type="text/javascript">
function callbackFunction(data){
$('#content').html(data);
}
$('document').ready(function(){
$('#x').click(function() {
$.post('/ajax_2/servlet',callbackFunction)
});
});
</script>
<body>
<a href="#" id="x">Increase it</a>
<div id="content"></div>
</body>
</html>
Servlet
HttpSession开发者_开发技巧 session = request.getSession();
Integer myInteger = (Integer)session.getAttribute("myInteger");
if(myInteger == null)
myInteger = new Integer(0);
else
myInteger = new Integer(myInteger+1);
session.setAttribute("myInteger", myInteger);
response.getWriter().println(myInteger);
The Question:
I use out.print to transfer data from a servlet to javascript code (ajax code) , but If I have a complex structure such as a Vector of Objects or something like this , what is the best way to transfer the data? what about an XML file , JSON ? Is there any special jsp/servlets library to transfer data from a servlet to ajax application ? How can I parse this data in the callbackFunction ?
The best way is using JSON. There are several Java libraries which can convert fullworthy Java objects to a JSON string and vice versa. Further JSON can be accessed in Javascript in a fully natural way without converting/massaging the data forth and back in another format.
As to the server side part, I strongly recommend to pick Google Gson as JSON serializer. Gson is the preferred choice since it supports converting complex Javabeans and arrays, collections and maps of them to JSON and vice versa without pains in a single line of code. It even supports generics. Basically all you need to do is the following:
String json = new Gson().toJson(object);
Check the user guide to learn more about the powers of Gson.
All with all, the following in the server side is sufficient:
public static void writeJson(HttpServletResponse response, Object object) throws IOException {
response.setContentType("application/json");
response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
response.getWriter().write(new Gson().toJson(object));
}
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