初学者阅读Servlet源码值得注意的地方

 

 

String javax.servlet.ServletRequest.getParameter(String name)：

If the parameter data was sent in the request body, such as occurs with an HTTP POST request, then reading the body directly via getInputStream or getReader can interfere with the execution of this method. 

 

 

void javax.servlet.ServletResponse.setCharacterEncoding(String charset)

Sets the character encoding (MIME charset) of the response being sent to the client, for example, to UTF-8. If the character encoding has already been set by setContentType or setLocale, this method overrides it. Calling setContentType with the String of text/html and calling this method with the String of UTF-8 is equivalent with calling setContentType with the String of text/html; charset=UTF-8. 

This method can be called repeatedly to change the character encoding. This method has no effect if it is called after getWriter has been called or after the response has been committed.

Parameters:

charset a String specifying only the character set defined by IANA Character Sets (http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets)

 

 

boolean javax.servlet.UnavailableException.isPermanent()

Returns a boolean indicating whether the servlet is permanently unavailable. If so, something is wrong with the servlet, and the system administrator must take some corrective action.

 

 

Hashtable javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils.parsePostData(int len, ServletInputStream in)

Parses data from an HTML form that the client sends to the server using the HTTP POST method and the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME type. 

The data sent by the POST method contains key-value pairs. A key can appear more than once in the POST data with different values. However, the key appears only once in the hashtable, with its value being an array of strings containing the multiple values sent by the POST method. 

The keys and values in the hashtable are stored in their decoded form, so any + characters are converted to spaces, and characters sent in hexadecimal notation (like %xx) are converted to ASCII characters.

 

 

StringBuffer javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils.getRequestURL(HttpServletRequest req)

Reconstructs the URL the client used to make the request, using information in the HttpServletRequest object. The returned URL contains a protocol, server name, port number, and server path, but it does not include query string parameters. 

Because this method returns a StringBuffer, not a string, you can modify the URL easily, for example, to append query parameters. 

This method is useful for creating redirect messages and for reporting errors.

 

 

javax.servlet.ServletContext

In the case of a web application marked "distributed" in its deployment descriptor, there will be one context instance for each virtual machine. In this situation, the context cannot be used as a location to share global information (because the information won't be truly global). Use an external resource like a database instead.