Client side waiting & timeout

S

Simon_21

Hi All,

I have a servlet which is invoked from a jsp page. While the serlvet
is executing, the jsp page is waiting for the servlet to complete.
When the servlet completes, it informs the waiting jsp to redirect to
another page. The waiting jsp has implemented onload which will
redirect to the page informed by the servlet


Server : (tomcat 6.0), Browser - IE 6.0, OS - WinXP



When the servlet takes a long time to return, the page is not
redirected. It seems the browser has given up on the request or timed
out . If the servlet comes back quickly, it works fine. The problem is
seen when the servlet takes a long time to finish.



//waiting jsp code

<html>
<head>
<title>Please wait......</title>

</head>

<body style='width: 100%;' onload='dynamicRedirect();'>

<br><br>
<div class='indent'><div id='dynamicDisplay'> </div></div>
<script>dynamicDisplayScript( 0, 'please wait' );</script> <br><br>



<%
out.flush();

//wait for the serlvet to finish
String servlet_url = "/servlet/ComputeServlet";
request.getRequestDispatcher( servlet_url ).include( request,
response );

%>



<SCRIPT language='JAVASCRIPT'>

function dynamicDisplayScript( x, info )
{
var y = 0;
var tab = FindElementById( "dynamicDisplay" ) ;
var display_val = "<h2>"+info;
var display_end = "</h2>";

if( Number( x ) == 0 )
{
tab.innerHTML = display_val+ "." +display_end;
y = 1;
}
else if( Number( x ) == 1 )
{
tab.innerHTML = display_val+ ".." +display_end;
y = 2;
}
else if( Number( x ) == 2 )
{
tab.innerHTML = display_val+ "..." +display_end;
y = 3;
}
else if( Number( x ) == 3 )
{
tab.innerHTML = display_val+ "...." +display_end;
y = 4;
}
else if( Number( x ) == 4 )
{
tab.innerHTML = display_val+ "....." +display_end;
y = 0;
}

var wait = 1000;
window.setTimeout( "dynamicDisplayScript(" + y + ", '" + info
+ "' )", wait );
}


//This is called after the page is loaded when the servet returns
function dynamicRedirect()
{
<%
String url = ( String )request.getAttribute( "RedirectURL");

%>
window.location = url;
}

</SCRIPT>

Appreciate any help

Thanks

_Pete
 
T

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

Simon_21 said:
I have a servlet which is invoked from a jsp page. While the serlvet
is executing, the jsp page is waiting for the servlet to complete.
When the servlet completes, it informs the waiting jsp to redirect to
another page. The waiting jsp has implemented onload which will
redirect to the page informed by the servlet

Server : (tomcat 6.0), Browser - IE 6.0, OS - WinXP

When the servlet takes a long time to return, the page is not
redirected. It seems the browser has given up on the request or timed
out . If the servlet comes back quickly, it works fine. The problem is
seen when the servlet takes a long time to finish.

//waiting jsp code
Click to expand...

Almost irrelevant.
var tab = FindElementById( "dynamicDisplay" ) ;
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Where is FindElementById() defined, and why does it have an identifier that
suggests a constructor or a factory?
if( Number( x ) == 0 )
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This is pointless. Unlike Java, ECMAScript implementations implement `=='
as a type-converting comparison that implicitly does more efficiently what
you write explicitly here.
else if( Number( x ) == 1 )
[aso.]
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Very inefficient and hard to maintain. Consider this instead:

if (x >= 0 && x <= 4)
{
tab.innerHTML = display_val+ "...." +display_end;
y = (x + 1) % 5;
}
window.setTimeout( "dynamicDisplayScript(" + y + ", '" + info
+ "' )", wait );
Click to expand...

You might want to use the well-supported (JavaScript 1.2+, NN 3+, IE 5+)

window.setTimeout(
function() {
dynamicDisplayScript(y, info);
},
wait);

instead. However you do it, don't forget to store your timeout and clear it
onunload.
<% String url = ( String )request.getAttribute( "RedirectURL"); %>
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Isn't that even pointless in Java? I suppose request.getAttribute() already
returns a reference to a String object -- why the typecast?
window.location = url;
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This is not going to work, of course. The client-side script does not know
about the server-side `url' variable. You will need to do something like

<%= "window.location = '" + request.getAttribute("RedirectURL"); + "';" %>

i.e. the server-side script generating client-side code. Don't forget to
properly escape the variable value or your client-side string literal might
break.
[...]
Appreciate any help
Click to expand...

Redirect server-side instead.

BTW, your generated markup is not Valid. See http://validator.w3.org/


PointedEars
 

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