How to read checkbox values from the HTML form data in AEM | AEM Servlet
Keshav Chaurasiya
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Keshav Chaurasiya
Adobe/AEM at Wipro Technologies(California, USA) AEM Certified(Lead Developer | Developer | Business Practitioner | Scrum Master Certified ), Adobe Community Member
Group checkbox values from the HTML form data in to AEM Servlet
countriesForm.html
<html
<body>
<form method="Post" action="/bin/countryForm">
<input type="checkbox" name="country" value="India" />India
<input type="checkbox" name="country" value="USA" />USA
<input type="checkbox" name="country" value="Japan" />Japan
<input type="submit" value="Select Country" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
ServletFormDataCheckbox.class
package com.kkc.core.servlets
import com.day.cq.commons.jcr.JcrConstants;
import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.sling.api.resource.Resource;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.HttpConstants;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.ServletResolverConstants;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingAllMethodsServlet;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingSafeMethodsServlet;
import org.apache.sling.servlets.annotations.SlingServletResourceTypes;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Component;
import org.osgi.service.component.propertytypes.ServiceDescription;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import javax.servlet.Servlet;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import java.io.IOException;
import static jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.regexp.joni.Config.log;
@Component(service = Servlet.class, immediate = true, property = { "description=Form Data Checkbox Servlet",
ServletResolverConstants.SLING_SERVLET_METHODS + "="
+ HttpConstants.METHOD_POST,
ServletResolverConstants.SLING_SERVLET_PATHS + "=/bin/countryForm" })
public class ServletFormDataCheckbox extends SlingAllMethodsServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ServletFormDataCheckbox.class);
@Override
protected void doPost(final SlingHttpServletRequest req,
final SlingHttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
final Resource resource = req.getResource();
resp.setContentType("text/plain");
resp.getWriter().write("Title = " + resource.getValueMap().get(JcrConstants.JCR_TITLE));
String[] values = req.getParameterValues("country");
log.info("Selected Countries are :");
for( String value : values )
{
log.info(" country name "+ value);
}
}
}