Ordering of values in HttpServletRequest.getParameterValues()

Question

HttpServletRequest.getParameterValues() returns a String[] containing all values of a given HTTP request parameter. Does anyone know if the order o

Answer 1

I've got a problem to extract param-value map from HttpServletRequest in order in accordance with elements on the JSP. I wrote an OrderedRequestMap that parsers an application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST request body.

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.Map;


public class OrderedRequestMap extends LinkedHashMap {

private final String encoding;

public OrderedRequestMap(InputStream httpBody, String encoding) throws IOException {
    this.encoding = encoding;
    fill(httpBody);
}

private void fill(InputStream is) throws IOException {
    final InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(is, "ASCII");
    int c;
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(1000);
    while ((c = reader.read()) != -1) {
        char ch = (char)c;
        if (ch == '&') {
            put(sb.toString());
            sb = new StringBuilder(1000);
        } else {
            sb.append(ch);
        }
    }
    put(sb.toString());
}

private void put(String parameter) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
    String[] pair = parameter.split("=");
    if (pair.length == 0 )
        return;
    String key = URLDecoder.decode(pair[0], encoding);
    String val = EMPTY_STR;
    if (pair.length > 1)
        val = URLDecoder.decode(pair[1], encoding);
    String[] values = get(key);
    if (values == null)
        values = new String[]{val};
    else {
        values = Arrays.copyOf(values, values.length+1);
        values[values.length - 1] = val;
    }
    put(key, values);
}


private static final String EMPTY_STR = "";
}

And call it like this

new OrderedRequestMap(request.getInputStream(), request.getCharacterEncoding());

Hope, it helps.