Re: converting some VB code to Java..
"maya" wrotw...
Hi all, long time no see....:) I'm trying to learn AJAX,
am following this tutorial,
http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/ajax_source.asp
Looking at the ASP-sample on that page, I wouldn't rely too much on that
tutorial. I think it's a bit flawed...
I need the VB script code in this pg converted to JSP
so I can play around with this in my Tomcat..
got as far converting the getParam line.. (I assume that's what
q=ucase(request.querystring("q"))
is..)
That's correct.
and I suppose the following is an array
(although don't see ref. to it further down..)
[snipped array initalization]
A reference to that array do exist, in a loop where each element is compared
to the parameter 'q'.
but the conditionals are throwing me off a bit...
(man, no semi-colons, no curly braces, looks a bit messy...)
Not only that, AFAIK, 'mid' is in VbScript what 'substring' is in Java,
which means that the logic of the loop is flawed.
if len(q)>0 then
hint=""
for i=1 to 30
if q=ucase(mid(a(i),1,len(q))) then
' the line above makes a substring of 'a[i]'
' starting from the first position, with the
' max length of 'q'
' The flaw in the logic is that if that substring
' *equals* to 'q', the rest of the loop doesn't make
' any sense...
if hint="" then
hint=a(i)
else
hint=hint & " , " & a(i)
end if
end if
next
end if
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I don't do JSP very much, but something similar with a
servlet could look like:
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class AjaxServlet extends HttpServlet
{
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException
{
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
String[] a = new String[30];
a[1] = "Anna";
a[2] = "Brittany";
a[3] = "Cinderella";
a[4] = "Diana";
a[5] = "Eva";
a[6] = "Fiona";
a[7] = "Gunda";
a[8] = "Hege";
a[9] = "Inga";
a[10] = "Johanna";
a[11] = "Kitty";
a[12] = "Linda";
a[13] = "Nina";
a[14] = "Ophelia";
a[15] = "Petunia";
a[16] = "Amanda";
a[17] = "Raquel";
a[18] = "Cindy";
a[19] = "Doris";
a[20] = "Eve";
a[21] = "Evita";
a[22] = "Sunniva";
a[23] = "Tove";
a[24] = "Unni";
a[25] = "Violet";
a[26] = "Liza";
a[27] = "Elizabeth";
a[28] = "Ellen";
a[29] = "Wenche";
a[30] = "Vicky";
String q = request.getParameter("q").toUpperCase();
String hint = "";
if (q != null && q.length() > 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 30; i++)
{
// Possible flaw in logic within the loop,
// see above...
if ( q.equals(a[i]
.substring(0, Math.min(q.length(), a[i].length())
.toUpperCase()) )
{
if (hint.equals(""))
{
hint = a[i];
}
else
{
hint += " , " + a[i];
}
}
}
}
if (hint.equals(""))
{
out.print("no suggestion");
}
else
{
out.print(hint);
}
}
}
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Then it's up to you to transform that into JSP... :-)
However, if I might guess, the loop possibly should look more like:
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if (q != null && q.length() > 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 30; i++)
{
// -> contains instead of equals?
if ( q.contains(a[i].toUpperCase()) )
{
if (hint.equals(""))
{
hint = a[i];
}
else
{
hint += " , " + a[i];
}
}
}
}
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....or like this:
if (q != null && q.length() > 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 30; i++)
{
if ( q.equals(a[i]
.substring(0, Math.min(q.length(), a[i].length())
.toUpperCase()) )
hint = a[i];
break; // <- break out when found...
}
}
}
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On the other hand, if the array (or whatever collection) had consisted of
several elements that *started* similarly (e.g. "Hege" *and* "Helga"), it
would make more sense. Otherwise, the tutorial just had a bad example...
/// Bjorn A
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