BBjHttpRequest::getAttribute

Description

In BBj 15.0 and higher, this method returns the value of the named attribute as an Object, or null() if no attribute of the given name exists.

Attributes can be set using BBjHttpRequest::setAttribute(). This allows information to be embedded into a request before a RequestDispatcher call.

Syntax

Return Value	Method
Object	getAttribute(string name)

Parameters

Variable	Description
name	A String specifying the name of the attribute.

Return Value

Returns an Object containing the value of the attribute, or null() if the attribute does not exist.

Remarks

None.

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()
    resp!.setContentType("text/html")
    open (chan)"JSERVLET"
    print (chan)"<html><body><h1>Hello BBj!</h1><ul>"

    vect! = request!.getAttributeNames()
    if vect!.size() then
      for i = 0 to vect!.size()-1
        name$ = vect!.get(i)
        print (chan)"<li><b>" + name$ + "</b> = " + request!.getAttribute(name$)
      next i
    endif
    print (chan)"</ul></body></html>"
    close (chan)
  methodend
classend