BBjHttpRequest::getCharacterEncoding

Description

In BBj 12.0 and later, this method returns the character encoding used by the client to create this BBjHttpRequest.

Syntax

Return Value

Method

String

getCharacterEncoding()

Parameters

None.

Return Value

a string containing the character encoding

Remarks

The example below shows getting the character encoding of a request within a BBjServlet.

Example

rem 'Obtain the instance of the BBjAPI object

let myAPI! = BBjAPI()
MyServlet! = new MyServlet()

data!.setCallback(data!.ON_WEB_CONNECTION, myServlet!, "myMethod")

process_events

class public MyServlet
    method public void myMethod(BBjServletEvent p_event!)
        let chan = UNT
        request! = p_event!.getHttpRequest()
        response! = p_event!.getHttpResponse()
        response!.setContentType("text/html")
        open (chan)"JSERVLET"
        print (chan)"<html><body><h1>Hello BBj!</h1>"
        print (chan)"Character Encoding:"+ request!.getCharacterEncoding()
        print (chan)"</body></html>"
        close (chan)
    methodend
classend

See Also

BBjAPI

BBjServletEvent

BBjHttpRequest