Hi Steve,
Thanks for the advice (I should have thought of that) and it's worked
well - I've just subclassed AxisServlet at this stage and have
overridden the doGet() method. I'm checking for an empty or null query
string, and when found I'm redirecting to a URL based on the name of the
service being called (obtained from getRequestURI()).
Cheers,
Joe
PS. The code is trivial but in case someone needs it down the track:
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
response)
throws IOException, ServletException {
// Test for an empty query string, if found redirect the
user/app to
// a documentation page, or forward the request on to the
superclass
// for valid service requests.
String queryString = request.getQueryString();
if (queryString == null || ("").equals(queryString)) {
// Display documentation for the web service in question, by
obtaining
// the context path, URI and service name.
String contextPath =
request.getContextPath();
String requestURI =
request.getRequestURI();
String serviceName = requestURI.substring(
requestURI.lastIndexOf("/")+1);
response.sendRedirect(
request.getContextPath()+"/webdocs/"+serviceName+".jsp");
} else {
// Let the superclass handle anything other than an empty
GET request
super.doGet(request,response);
}
}
> > (Sorry if this is a duplicate, I don't think the original made it
> > because of my sending address).
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if it is possible to change the default page ('Hi
> > there, this is an Axis service!') that is served when you access an
> > Axis service endpoint w/o supplying parameters?
> >
> > I've searched the latest CVS source code for those words
> but haven't
> > managed to find them (odd, is it gone in HEAD?).
>
> Its a string kept in resource.properties under axis.i18n.
>
> > Ultimately I'd like to display some HTML documentation about the
> > service when accessed with a simple HTTP GET.
>
> I recommend
> (a) subclassing AxisServlet to redirect to an html/jsp page.
> There are various reportXXX methods which report the various
> things. * Use the latest CVS source, not older versions* as
> things change.
>
> or
>
> (b) modifying Axis so that the current (or subclassed)
> servlet can take an html_description property from a web
> service and display that string.
>
> Although it would seem 'better' to have axis redir every
> variant on GET to a JSP page with the appropriate properties
> set up, we dont want to rely on jsp support in the web
> engine, hence the current hard coding
