1) jsp file
<%@page import="java.sql.Statement"%>
<%@page import="java.sql.ResultSet"%>
<%@page import="controller.ConnectionString"%>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<script type="text/javascript"></script>
<title>Country</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var htmlres;
function showState(str)
{
var cou=document.getElementById("cname").value;
alert("In showState function:"+cou);
var url="State_drop?cname=" +cou;
if(window.ActiveXObject)
{
htmlres=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
else if(window.XMLHttpRequest)
{
htmlres=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
htmlres.onreadystatechange=changeState;
htmlres.open("post", url, true);
htmlres.send();
}
function changeState()
{
alert("In changeState function");
if(htmlres.readyState == 4 && htmlres.status == 200)
{
alert("In readystate==4..");
var res=htmlres.responseText;
document.getElementById("state").innerHTML=res.text;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Select Country:
<select name="cname" id="cname" onchange="showState(this.value)">
<option value="none">--Select Country--</option>
<%
ConnectionString cs=new ConnectionString();
cs.getConn();
Statement s=cs.conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs=s.executeQuery("select * from country");
while(rs.next())
{
//String cid=rs.getString(1);
//String cname=rs.getString(2);
%>
<option value="<%= rs.getString(2) %>"><%= rs.getString(2) %></option>
<% }
s.close();
rs.close(); %>
</select>
<br>
<br>
<div id="stateid">
Select State:
<select name="state" id="state">
<option value='-1'> --Select One--</option>
</select>
</div>
</body>
</html>
2) java file
package controller;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
@WebServlet("/State_drop")
public class State_drop extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public State_drop() {
super();
}
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
{
}
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
{
System.out.println("In state.jsp");
PrintWriter out1=response.getWriter();
response.setContentType("text/xml");
String country=request.getParameter("cname");
System.out.println("country name is:"+ country);
String result="<select name='state'><option value='-1'>Select</option>";
try
{
ConnectionString cs1=new ConnectionString();
cs1.getConn();
int val=0;
Statement st=cs1.conn.createStatement();
Statement st1=cs1.conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs1=st.executeQuery("select coun_id from country where coun_name= '"+country+"'");
while(rs1.next())
{
val=((Number)rs1.getObject(1)).intValue();
}
System.out.println("val is:"+ val);
ResultSet rs2=st1.executeQuery("select * from state where coun_id='"+val+"'");
while(rs2.next())
{
result=result + "<option value='"+ rs2.getString(3)+"'>"+rs2.getString(3)+"</option>";
result= result + "</select>";
System.out.println("Final result is:"+ result);
out1.println("result");
}
st.close();
st1.close();
rs1.close();
rs2.close();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
out1.println(e);
}
}
}
Im not able to get values retrived from servlet into dropdownlist of jsp page...kindly check the code attached and tell me changes in the same.