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Raghu
Raghu

Reputation: 31

How to send JSP as response to AJAX call

I want to send a JSP page which consists of some divs and table as part of AJAX response from spring framework, is there any way to send JSP as a response of AJAX call

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9466

Answers (2)

Ollie Edwards
Ollie Edwards

Reputation: 14729

Yes, there's no magic to this though. In your Java AJAX handler just return a forward or redirect to the JSP page you want. The response will then be available as the responseText in your AJAX callback.

You can use JSP to generate just the elements you need as a sort of incomplete HTML fragment then returns this from your server-side handler. Then in your JavaScript callback you can insert the fragment into your existing HTML like this

element.innerHTML = resp.responseText 
//element is the parent you want to insert to 
//resp is the parameter supplied to your callback

Upvotes: 0

craftsman
craftsman

Reputation: 15623

Sending JSP by AJAX makes no sense, it is basically the HTML generated by a JSP that is sent over to the browser through AJAX, as rightly pointed out by the lost.

You do not need any server-side coding for this. All you need is to write some JavaScript on client-side to receive your HTML asynchronously. For this, I would recommend using some JavaScript framework like jQuery, otherwise, it would make your life hell.

Assuming that the page you want to access by AJAX has the link http://domain:port/mypage.htm. First you need to include jQuery in your base JSP (JSP in which former page has to load by AJAX):

<script type="text/javascript" src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/js/jquery.js"></script>

Then you need to call jQuery's AJAX function:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $.ajax({
        type:"GET",
        url: "http://domain:port/mypage.htm",
        success: function(data) {
            // Now you have your HTML in "data", do whatever you want with it here in this function         
            alert(data);
        }
    });
});

Hope it helps!

Upvotes: 3

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