Request parameters are string. Its beyond the scope of jaggery to fix this
imo

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Tharindu
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On Mar 6, 2012 10:00 AM, "Hiranya Jayathilaka" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I was also thinking the same. But since this is JavaScript, doesn't the
>> type conversion automatically happen? Perhaps not. How will it know whether
>> "1" is a String or int.
>
>
> That's correct. And I think it's ok too. This is consistent with
> JSP/Servlet API. If we are to solve this problem I think we should
> introduce more methods to the API such as getParameterAsInt and
> getParameterAsDouble.
>
> Thanks,
> Hiranya
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Nuwan Bandara <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Samisa,
>>>
>>> When you take the parameters from the request they are not type bound.
>>> they will be always String, and if you are sure that some parameter is an
>>> Integer you can cast it to a Integer and do math operations on it.
>>>
>>> It goes same for Java HTTPServletRequest [1]
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/ServletRequest.html#getParameter(java.lang.String)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> /Nuwan
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Ruchira Wageesha <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't think it is possible to differentiate request parameters as
>>>> strings, integers, floats etc. i.e. when we pass something as a request
>>>> param from the client side, we don't consider their types.
>>>>
>>>> If I have understand your question properly, what is would be
>>>> the rationale behind identifying params in [1] as numbers and [2] as
>>>> strings?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>> Ruchira
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://foo.com/calc?param1=1&param2=2
>>>> [2] http://foo.com/search?param1=hello&param2=world
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Reason I am saying is that I wrote a cal to demo session and
>>>>> the param could not be added out of the box. I have to make use of ' *
>>>>> parseFloat'*
>>>>>
>>>>> See code below.
>>>>>
>>>>> <%
>>>>>     var operation = request.getParameter("operation");
>>>>>     var value1 = parseFloat( request.getParameter("value1") );
>>>>>     var value2 = parseFloat( request.getParameter("value2") );
>>>>>
>>>>>     var result = 0;
>>>>>     var memory = 0;
>>>>>
>>>>>     if (operation == "add" ) {
>>>>>         result = value1 + value2;
>>>>>     } else if (operation == "sub" ) {
>>>>>         result = value1 - value2;
>>>>>     } else if (operation == "mul" ) {
>>>>>         result = value1 * value2;
>>>>>     } else if (operation == "div" ) {
>>>>>         result = value1 / value2;
>>>>>     } else if (operation == "mem" ) {
>>>>>         memory = session.get("result");
>>>>>          result = memory + value1;
>>>>>     }
>>>>>
>>>>>     session.put("result", result);
>>>>>
>>>>>     if (operation == "mem" ) {
>>>>>         print( memory + " + " + value1 + " = " + result );
>>>>>     } else {
>>>>>         print( value1 + " " + operation + " " + value2 + " = " +
>>>>> result );
>>>>>     }
>>>>> %>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Cannot treat a number param as a number.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Samisa...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Samisa Abeysinghe
>>>>>> VP Engineering
>>>>>> WSO2 Inc.
>>>>>> http://wso2.com
>>>>>> http://wso2.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Thanks,
>>>>> Samisa...
>>>>>
>>>>> Samisa Abeysinghe
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