[jdom-interest] JDOM Closing my Servlet OutputStream

Tue Feb 20 05:55:19 PST 2001

There is a FAQ about this I think.

http://www.jdom.org/docs/faq.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CND [mailto:admin at brevsville.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 4:11 AM
> To: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: [jdom-interest] JDOM Closing my Servlet OutputStream
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm new to JDOM and new to XML so I might be missing something obvious
> here.
> 
> Whenever I use the DOM/SAX parser withing my Servlet doPost or doGet
> methods, the ServletOutputStream seems to get trashed. For 
> example I use
> the code below:
> 
> public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res){
>         DOMBuilder b = new DOMBuilder();
>         // Create the document
>         Document doc = b.build(req.getInputStream());
>         Element node = doc.getRootElement();
> 
>         String bc = node.getChild("Request")
>                           .getChild("PunchOutSetupRequest")
>                           .getChild("BuyerCookie").getTextTrim();
> 
>         res.setContentType("text/plain");
>         PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
> 	 out.println("<html>Hello!</HTML>
> 	 out.flush();
> 
> etc...
> 
> Nothing gets out of the ServletOutputStream.  However if I 
> remove the line
> :
> 
>         Document doc = b.build(req.getInputStream());
> 
> Everything works just fine! So clearly something is going 
> wrong with the
> "build"....or maybe my mind:)
> 
> I have tried getting the printwriter before calling "build" but to no
> avail.  I know the parser if working correctly since the Element text
> returned is perfect.  If I send my output to the servlet log, 
> the output
> is fine. I just can't get anything out of the 
> ServletOutputStream. I used
> checkError() and it returns false and the stream is open.   I 
> ran exactly
> the same code against an xml file in a standard java class 
> (not a servlet)
> and it also works fine.
> 
> I'm using JDOM-b-6 and tested in Linux and W2K. I also have Jason and
> Craig's Java-XML book but no clues there either.
> 
> Help!
> 
> Thanx
> 
> Chris
> 
> PS 
> Jason since your Servlet Programming book is so fantastic, 
> why not a nice
> XML-Servlet book?
> 
> 
> 
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