如何将链接值从HTML页面传递到Rest Web服务

Question

If I have a HTML or a JSP page having list of sports like below.

Tennis
Football
Hockey
Cricket

All these 4 should be a Link. If I click on any of them it should return some details wherever clicked. For this I need to pass this sport name to a REST client which will pass this as a parameter to a rest service.

My question is how to pass the value of a link whichever clicked from HTML page to a Java application like we pass text box or check box values from HTML using the form action? Or is there any better approach, please suggest

Answer 1

I suggest you to look at jQuery.ajax . Basically you'll want to create an XHR (GET, POST etc depending on the rest client configuration) and send your data.

Here is a very crude example on the subject;

$('.sports').on('click', function() {
   var clickedElementText = $(this).text();
   $.ajax({
     url: "/your/endpoint/url",
     method: "POST",
     data: { 
        sportName : clickedElementText;
     },
   }).success(function( response ) {
     /* success callback */
   }).failure(function( jqXHR, textStatus ) {
     /* failure callback */
   });
}

Answer 2

Ajax是一种好方法，也可以只定义元素

<a href="/sports/detail?sportName=tennis">