including JSP using javascript

[Pablo]

Dear all,

I have a website where I need to fill its contents after retrieving
some data from another system (not a DB, but you can think like it).
I know the nature of the data, but the order that it is retrieved is
random, and there is no way to order it. Therefore, it is giving me
some pain to produce the html code.
I was thinking of having the following javascript to place my html
code. Here, "rightImg" is the ID of a DIV tag where I want to position
my code. The code should be the content of the htmlBody variable.

function addTopRightImage() {
var htmlBody = '.';
if (document.all) {
document.all('rightImg').innerHTML = htmlBody;
}
else if (document.getElementById) {
document.getElementById('rightImg').innerHTML = htmlBody;
}
}

However, if I set the variable as it is shown bellow, the page is not
loaded as I want:

var htmlBody = '<jsp:include page="/WEB-INF/Standard.jsp"
flush="true"><jsparam name="id" value="${myid}" /></jsp:include>';

Does anyone have a clue of what is going wrong? Maybe an alternative
solution?
Regards,
Pablo

 

[Meke]

Dear all,

I have a website where I need to fill its contents after retrieving
some data from another system (not a DB, but you can think like it).
I know the nature of the data, but the order that it is retrieved is
random, and there is no way to order it. Therefore, it is giving me
some pain to produce the html code.
I was thinking of having the following javascript to place my html
code. Here, "rightImg" is the ID of a DIV tag where I want to position
my code. The code should be the content of the htmlBody variable.

function addTopRightImage() {
var htmlBody = '.';
if (document.all) {
document.all('rightImg').innerHTML = htmlBody;
}
else if (document.getElementById) {
document.getElementById('rightImg').innerHTML = htmlBody;
}
}

However, if I set the variable as it is shown bellow, the page is not
loaded as I want:

var htmlBody = '<jsp:include page="/WEB-INF/Standard.jsp"
flush="true"><jsparam name="id" value="${myid}" /></jsp:include>';

Does anyone have a clue of what is going wrong? Maybe an alternative
solution?
Regards,
Pablo

I think I'm correct in saying that a jsp page is compiled by the java app
server the first time it's requested by a client - much the same as a
classic servlet.
The way you are trying to do it, the jsp tag in the javascript is not seen
at compile time and get's included in the output to the client verbatum.

The key point is, I think, that the jsp is NOT translated at run time when
it is requested which it would need to be for your code to work.

Sorry for babbling, but hopefully you get the point


Mark

 

[Lew]

The key point is, I think, that the jsp is NOT translated at run time when
it is requested which it would need to be for your code to work.

That is correct. The Javascript executes client-side after the JSP has been
generated. There is no possibility to generate HTML from JSP constructs on the
client side.

What the OP wants to do should be done server-side by the JSP. The raison
d'être for JSP is dynamic generation of HTML.

- Lew