Servlet doGet() doPost() method

Question

Generally we specify the doGet and doPost in our HTML code, so that servlet will invoke these methods with respect to the call in HTML code.

Is there any way that whether we call doPost or doGet Servlet doPost method will get called?

I know there is one way that in doGet we can call doPost method , But apart from that is there any other method .

Related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349633/servlets-doget-and-dopost — BalusC, May 03 '11 at 23:33

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 03 '11 at 21:14

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Calling one from the other, or better - calling a 3rd method from both is the best approach.

You can override the service() method as well, but there's more code there that you might not want to loose.

answered May 03 '11 at 21:14

Bozho

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 08 '15 at 06:38

You can create a common method and put it into doGet() or doPost().

protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
} 

@Override
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
    processRequest(request, response);
} 

@Override
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
    processRequest(request, response);
}

Servlet doGet() doPost() method

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