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Really Poor Man's Seaside

09.05.2006

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        // A demo of how do continuation based web development in Java

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import java.io.IOException;

public class PoorMansSeaSide extends HttpServlet
{
  Thread thread;
  String body;
  String answer;

  Object parent = new Object();
  Object self = new Object();

  protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse httpServletResponse) throws ServletException, IOException
  {
    String answer = httpServletRequest.getParameter("answer");
    if(answer != null)
    {
      callContinuation(answer);
    }
    else
    {
      wrapMain(httpServletRequest, httpServletResponse);
    }
    try
    {
      synchronized(parent) {
        parent.wait();
      }
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }

    httpServletResponse.setContentType("text/html");
    httpServletResponse.getWriter().print("<html><body>" + body + "</body></html>");
  }

  private void callContinuation(String answer)
  {
    this.answer = answer;
    synchronized(self) {
      self.notify();
    }
  }

  private String ask(String question)
  {
    body = question + "<br/> " +
        "<form> " +
        "  <input type=\"text\" name=\"answer\"> " +
        "  <input type=\"submit\" value=\"submit\"> " +
        "</form>";

    synchronized(parent){
      parent.notify();
    }
    try
    {
      synchronized(self) {
        self.wait();
      }
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }

    return answer;
  }

  private void wrapMain(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest, final HttpServletResponse httpServletResponse)
  {
    thread = new Thread(new Runnable(){
      public void run()
      {
        body = main();
        synchronized(parent){
          parent.notify();
        }
      }
    });
    thread.start();
  }

  protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse httpServletResponse) throws ServletException, IOException
  {
    doGet(httpServletRequest, httpServletResponse);
  }

  private String main()
  {
    String name = ask("Name?");
    String age = ask("Age?");
    String homeTown = ask("Home Town?");
    return "Hello " + name + ".  You are a " + age + " year old from " + homeTown + ".";
  }
}

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