can you use php-like associative form arrays in JAVA

[arianhojat]

Asked in java forum, but i guess they avoided me

Want to do something like this in java:

 

//visit following url:

//test.php?page=1&reloadReport=true&params[startDate]=2/7/2003&params[endDate]=2/7/2003&params[firstName]=John&etc=could be many many unknown vars in params

//and easily loop over to put in array for further processing

 

foreach( $_GET['params'] as $key=>$val)

{

$params[$key] = $value;

}

createReport($params);

 

//my java psuedocode:

 

Map parameters = new HashMap();

ArrayList params = (ArrayList) request.getParameter("params");

for( String key=>value : params )

{

params.put( key, value );

}

createReport(params);

[Daniel0]

Would this be of any use?

 

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/HashMap.html

[arianhojat]

already looked at java apis.

 

i think php might be unique in this regard and made it easier to look at html form vars as arrays

and java just sucks

 

 

[arianhojat]

I think this is what i was looking for:

 

String[] paramValues = request.getParameterValues(paramName);

for(int i=0; i<paramValues.length; i++)

{

out.println( paramValues );

}