can we do getwriter and forward in a single servlet

[karanits]

Hello everyone. I have a question.

In a servlet, can we write something on page using

PrintWriter out=response.getWriter();

,then clearing the page and then also forward the request using

RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher("/some jsp page");
 rd.forward(request, response);

I was trying to do this but for some reason forwarding part is not happening.

[karanits]

no answers?!!!

[peter_budo]

Because your question doesn't make sense. Explain properly, do not expect us to do guess work and what you trying to do.

[karanits]

Ok.sorry about that..Let me rephrase. Lets say my form called a servlet. I would do some processing in it. In the servlet i want to print something on the page. for that i used

PrintWriter out=response.getWriter();
out.println("some text here");

then further in the servlet i did some more form proccessing which works fine and after that i want the servlet to be forwarded to a jsp page. For this i used

RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher("/somepage.jsp");
rd.forward(request, response);

the problem comes here. the text

some text here

gets printed, but the servlet doesnt forward request to the jsp page, as if the code doesnt run. I hope now I am clear enough.

[~s.o.s~]

As a servlet developer you need to make up your mind -- whether to do the processing in the servlet and use it for sending a response to the client OR add/update request/session/application scoped parameters and let some other managed component (another servlet/jsp page) handle the processing/response creation.

The HTTP servlet specification creates an abstraction over the HTTP request/response model. Once response is sent to the client, it can't be *revoked* and a new one be sent. When you say `out.println()`, you are effectively pushing the HTTP response to the client or more specifically "committing" the response (assuming that your output buffer is already full). After that, any attempts at `forwarding` your request to some other resource for processing gives an IllegalArgumentException.

Does your server log show any exception stack trace when you make your request?

[karanits]

Thanks for the reply, I see what you mean. I had a feeling this is not good coding, thats why i wrote this to confirm.
I have not checked the logs yet. But I dont know ehy exception was not shown anywhere..not even in console