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Ankur
Ankur

Reputation: 51118

Printing from servlet, why does this not work

I want to print from a servlet. I believe I have the correct syntax. But I get the message "delete these tokens" in Eclipse.

    PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); 
    out.println("<html><head><title>Woohoo</title></head><body>\n" + 

            "<form id="report_form" name="report_form" method="post" action="AgReportServlet">\n"+
            "<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">\n"+
                "<tr>\n"+
                "   <td><label>Start Date<br />\n"+
                "   <select name="start_date" id="start_date">\n"+
                "       <option value="2000">2000</option>\n" +
                "       <option value="2001">2001</option>\n" +
                "       <option value="2002">2002</option>\n" +
                "       <option value="2003">2003</option>\n" +
                "       <option value="2004">2004</option>\n" +
                "   </select> </label></td>\n"+
                "   <td>End Date<br />\n"+
                "   <select name="end_date" id="end_date">\n"+
                "       <option value="2000">2000</option>\n"+
                "       <option value="2001">2001</option>\n"+
                "       <option value="2002">2002</option>\n"+
                "       <option value="2003">2003</option>\n"+
                "       <option value="2004">2004</option>\n"+
                "   </select></td>\n"+
                "   <td><label>Agricultural Zone<br />\n"+
                "   <select name="ag_zone" id="ag_zone">\n"+
                "       <option value="1">Zone 1</option>\n"+
                "       <option value="2">Zone 2</option>\n"+
                "       <option value="3">Zone 3</option>\n"+
                "       <option value="4">Zone 4</option>\n"+
                "       <option value="5">Zone 5</option>\n"+
                "   </select> </label></td>\n"+
                "   <td><label>Locality<br />\n"+
                "   <select name="locality" id="locality">\n"+
                "       <option value="here">There</option>\n"+
                "       <option value="there">There</option>\n"+
                "   </select> </label></td>\n"+
                "   <td><label><br />\n"+
                "   <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" /> </label></td>\n"+
                "</tr>\n"+
        "   </table>\n"+
        "   </form>\n"+
        "</body>\n"+
        "</html>"
            );
    out.flush();
    out.close();

The stack trace is as follows: java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems:
Syntax error on tokens, delete these tokens
Syntax error on tokens, delete these tokens
Syntax error on tokens, delete these tokens The type of the expression must be an array type but it resolved to String
Syntax error on token "2000", [ expected
The type of the expression must be an array type but it resolved to String
Syntax error on token "2001", [ expected
The type of the expression must be an array type but it resolved to String
Syntax error on token "2002", [ expected
The type of the expression must be an array type but it resolved to String
Syntax error on token "2003", [ expected
The type of the expression must be an array type but it resolved to String
Syntax error on token "2004", [ expected
Syntax error on tokens, delete these tokens
The type of the expression must be an array type but it resolved to String
Syntax error on token "2000", [ expected
The type of the expression must be an array type but it resolved to String
Syntax error on token "2001", [ expected
The type of the expression must be an array type but it resolved to String
Syntax error on token "2002", [ expected
The type of the expression must be an array type but it resolved to String
Syntax error on token "2003", [ expected
The type of the expression must be an array type but it resolved to String

etc. etc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1935

Answers (2)

time4tea
time4tea

Reputation: 2197

Yeah this isn't what you want to do. Try Freemarker instead.

Upvotes: 0

cletus
cletus

Reputation: 625447

You're putting double quotes inside your string like:

"<form id="report_form"...

You need to escape them:

"<form id=\"report_form\"...

or use single quotes in the HTML:

"<form id='report_form'...

Upvotes: 2

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