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Thread: i/o from jsp to a file (via creating an object)

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    Unhappy i/o from jsp to a file (via creating an object)

    Hello everyone,

    I created 3 JSP pages: 1 - login, 2-displays 4 checkboxes with a submit, 3-displays the info submitted and also creates a file to store this information. I have a separate StudentElective.java where I created an object.
    page.3 jsp looks like this:

    <%  String knum = (String) session.getAttribute("knum");
        String mycourse = (String) session.getAttribute("course");
        String[] id = request.getParameterValues("id");%>
    <html>
        <head>
            <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
            <title>Page 3</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            <h3>Thank you, <%=knum%>!</h3>
            You have selected
            <%
                int i;
                for (i = 0; i < id.length; i++) {
                    out.print(id[i]);
                    if (i == 0) {
                        out.print(" and ");
                    }
                }
     
            %>!
            <br>
            Your application is now registered!
     
            <%  StudentElective se = new StudentElective();
                se.setKnum(knum);
                se.setCourse(mycourse);
                se.setElchoice(id);
     
     
     
                try {
                    File DATAFILE = new File("c:/Users/k000000/Documents/studentData.dat");
                    if (!DATAFILE.exists()) {DATAFILE.createNewFile();}
     
                    FileOutputStream DATA = new FileOutputStream(DATAFILE);
                    ObjectOutputStream SAVE = new ObjectOutputStream(DATA);
     
                    SAVE.writeObject(se);
                } catch (Exception X) {
                    System.out.print("\n\tFile Access Error. Could not SAVE.");
                }
     
            %>
        </body>
    </html>

    My object file:
    public class StudentElective implements java.io.Serializable {
     
        private String knum,
                course;
        private String[] elchoice;
     
        public StudentElective() {
        }
     
        public StudentElective(String knum, String course, String[] elchoice) {
            this.knum = knum;
            this.course = course;
            this.elchoice = elchoice;
        }
     
        public String getCourse() {
            return course;
        }
     
        public String[] getElchoice() {
            return elchoice;
        }
     
        public String getKnum() {
            return knum;
        }
     
        public void setCourse(String course) {
            this.course = course;
        }
     
        public void setElchoice(String[] elchoice) {
            this.elchoice = elchoice;
        }
     
        public void setKnum(String knum) {
            this.knum = knum;
        }
           public void print() {
            System.out.print(this.knum);
            System.out.print(this.course);
            System.out.print(this.elchoice);
        }
     
    }

    I have 2 questions:
    1. At the moment everytime I write new information into a file, my old info is gone.How can I modify my code so everytime I write a new info into a file it will be saved onto a new line. In other words, how can I open my file for multiple entries everytime new instance of object gets created?
    2.I made an error somewhere when I was trying to pass selected checkboxes to an array in my object. Everytime I read the info from file created it shows something like

    [Ljava.lang.String;@5456a499

    instead of the names of my checkboxes.Where I made this mistake and how to fix it?

    Thank you in advance for any help possible.


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    Default Re: i/o from jsp to a file (via creating an object)

    Quote Originally Posted by Panoksa View Post
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    1. At the moment everytime I write new information into a file, my old info is gone.How can I modify my code so everytime I write a new info into a file it will be saved onto a new line.
    Here's the thing: ObjectOutputStream objects are not designed to be appendable. Reference the ObjectOutputStream API

    I mean, you can open the underlying FileOutputStream in appendable mode, but when you create an ObjectOutputStream object the constructor immediately writes a new Serializable header to the stream, which results in a corrupted stream at that point (the end of the old file) when you append things and then, later, try to read in the new stuff.

    At least that what I observed. (I'm new to Java, and I would welcome any enlightenment here. It wouldn't be the first time I overlooked something that is "easy and obvious" to anyone with more than four months experience.)

    I keep thinking that they could have made the ObjectInputStream readObject() "smarter," to get past this, but maybe that wasn't a good idea either. Maybe there is a Good Reason why things are as they are.

    Anyhow...

    Maybe you can read all of the previous stuff from the file and then create a brand new file and ObjectOutputStream and write the old stuff and then the new stuff. You can write as many objects as you want in a single session with a single new file, right? (By packaging the objects in a collection, I'm thinking. Maybe an ArrayList or some such thing?)

    There is some discussion about a way to create appendable ObjectOutputStream objects is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...38141#12438141 I haven't tried it (because, for one thing, I couldn't think of a bullet-proof way of knowing how much stuff to read), but those guys always seem to be really on top of things.

    Quote Originally Posted by Panoksa View Post
    2....Everytime I read the info from file created it shows something like

    System.out.println(se.getElChoice());
    .
    .
    [Ljava.lang.String;@5456a499
    Your object's elchoice is an array of Strings. If you use something like System.out.println(arrayName) for any kind of array, you get the name of the array and a hashcode. To print the contents of an array in a single print statement, you can use the Arrays static toString() method:
    System.out.println(Arrays.toString(se.getElChoice()));

    (You might want to change the print() method in your StudentElective class to something like this also.)

    Cheers!

    Z
    Last edited by Zaphod_b; September 26th, 2012 at 03:53 PM.

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