Metacat

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 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

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package edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.advancedsearch;

import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

import edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.client.*;

/**

 * @author dcosta

 *

 * The BrowseServlet class executes a browse action. This is equivalent to

 * a simple search, but the user clicks on a link to determine the search term.

 */

public class BrowseServlet extends HttpServlet {

   * Class fields

   */

  private static final String CONFIG_DIR = "WEB-INF";

  private static final String CONFIG_NAME = "metacat.properties";

  // Instance Variables

  private String contextString = "";

  // Methods

  /**

   * Executes a browse-based simple search.

   */

  public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)

      throws IOException, ServletException {

    AdvancedSearch advancedSearch;

    String browseValue;

    RequestDispatcher dispatcher;

    HttpSession httpSession = request.getSession();

    Metacat metacat = (Metacat) httpSession.getAttribute("metacat");

    // First check whether the metacat URL was set as a context-param.

    metacatURL = servletContext.getInitParameter("metacatURL");

    // If no metacat URL was configured, then derive the metacat URL from the

    // server name and server port.

    if (metacatURL == null || metacatURL.equals("")) {

      String serverName = request.getServerName();

      int serverPort = request.getServerPort();

    // Tell the web server that the response is HTML

    response.setContentType("text/html");

    // Fetch the browseValue parameter from the request and execute a search

    advancedSearch = new AdvancedSearch(null);

    browseValue = request.getParameter("browseValue");

                                          xslPath, browseValue);

    // Store the result HTML string in the request for retrieval by

    // the metacatpathqueryresults.jsp form.

    request.setAttribute("result", result);

    dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(resultsJSP);

    dispatcher.forward(request, response);

  }

   * Initializes the servlet. Reads properties and initializes object fields.

   *

   * @throws ServletException

   */

  public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {

	ServletContext context = null;

    String dirPath;

    Options options = null;

    super.init(config);

    context = config.getServletContext();

    dirPath = context.getRealPath(CONFIG_DIR);

    File propertyFile = new File(dirPath, CONFIG_NAME);

    try {

      options = Options.initialize(propertyFile);

    }

    catch (IOException e) {

      System.err.println("Error in loading options: " + e.getMessage());

    }

    this.contextString = options.getOption("context");

  }