Thanks for the advice Roberto. I agree that the approach is wrong, but in my real application I definitely use the MVC pattern as much as possible.
The problem I'm running into is that my servlet calls other classes to do the business logic. One of these classes does XSLT. What I end up doing is getting the OutputStream from the servlet and passing it down to the class that does the transformation, which sends the results of the transformation to this OutputStream. Exceptions could possible occur during the transformation, and this is where I run into this problem of the jsp error page not getting called. The use of OutputStream or Writer for the XSLT results is what keeps me from doing exactly what you suggested. I have this one hook, so to speak.
I welcome any suggestions/work-arounds other than what I'm doing now with the use of the OutputStream in the XSLT transformation.
Thanks.
| "Roberto Cosenza"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
02/08/2005 04:46 PM
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Your approach is bad but don't worry. If you have time, read something about MVC. You will need it eventually.
To make your servlet work, try something like:
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
throws ServletException, IOException {
StringBuffer myOutput = new StringBuffer();
try {
myOutput.append("Here I'm not doing anything illegal");
if(true)
throw new BookNotFoundException("Book doesn't exist");
}
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Caught exception: " + e.getMessage());
throw new ServletException("Dummy Exception", e);
}
// you reach this only if no errors have been caught so no error page to display
OutputStream out = res.getOutputStream();
res.setContentType("text/plain");
out.println(myOutput.toString());
}
/roberto
----- Original Message -----
From: DAVID TURNER
To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:56 PM
Subject: IllegalStateException: getOutputStream() has already been called for this response
I'm trying to write a servlet that handles business logic exceptions by specifying in the web.xml the jsp error page that I want to use for a specific Exception (see web.xml snippet below). I have this working when I use response.getWriter() in the servlet instead of response.getOutputStream() -- see sample servlet code below. But, when I try to use the response.getOutputStream() approach the jsp error page doesn't work and an "IllegalStateException: getOutputStream() has already been called for this response " gets thrown because the jsp is probably trying to get the OutputStream also.
Why does the response.getWriter() method work even after headers/data have been written to the writer?
Is there any way to get the jsp error page to work with the getOutputStream()?
I would like to eventually compress the response stream, but from all the examples I've come across on compression they all use getOutputStream.
web.xml contents:
<error-page>
<exception-type>BookNotFoundException</exception-type>
<location>/jsp/ErrorPage.jsp</location>
</error-page>
servlet contents:
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
throws ServletException, IOException {
PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
//OutputStream out = res.getOutputStream();
res.setContentType("text/plain");
try {
out.println("Line 1 of servlet");
//out.write("Line 1 of servlet".getBytes());
throw new BookNotFoundException("Book doesn't exist");
}
catch (Exception e) {
res.reset();
System.out.println("Caught exception: " + e.getMessage());
throw new ServletException("Dummy Exception", e);
}
}
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