Post Form won't call Servlet

Question

So i have a post form which calls a Servlet to perform a search but the problem is that when i push the submit button it's completely unresponsive. Although when used in the same form in a different .jsp page it works as it should. If it had something to do with the servlet mapping there would be an error page from the tomcat server but i do not get such an error page. It's just completely unresponsive.

My HTML form:

   <form action="AnonSearchServlet" class="form-inline" method="post">
      <input type="search" name="location" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="Destination, City, Address" required>
      <div class="input-group">
        <input type="search" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="When" name="daterange" value="" required/>
        <div class="input-group-addon">
          <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></span>
        </div>
      </div>
      <input style="width: 20%; height: 46px" type="number" min="1" name="accomodates" class="form-control" placeholder="Guests" required>
      <button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger btn-lg">Search</button>
    </form>

My Servlet:

public class AnonSearchServlet extends HttpServlet {
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        String start_date;
        String end_date;
        String date_range = request.getParameter("daterange");
        UserBean user = new UserBean();
        String[] tokens = date_range.split(" ");
        start_date = tokens[0];
        end_date = tokens[2];

        try {
            HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
            user.setUserID(0);
            System.out.println(user.getUserID());

            ResultSet search_rs = null;
            SearchBean search_bean = new SearchBean();

            search_bean.setUserId(user.getUserID());
            search_bean.setLocation(request.getParameter("location"));
            System.out.println(request.getParameter("location"));
            search_bean.setStreet(request.getParameter("location"));
            search_bean.setNeighbourhood(request.getParameter("location"));
            search_bean.setAccomodates(request.getParameter("accomodates"));
            search_bean.setStartDate(start_date);
            search_bean.setEndDate(end_date);

            search_bean = SearchDAO.search(search_bean);
            session.setAttribute("current_search", search_bean);
            response.sendRedirect("searchResults.jsp");


        } catch (Throwable thException) {
            System.out.println(thException);
        }
    }
}

And my web.xml:

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>AnonSearchServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>Servlets.AnonSearchServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>AnonSearchServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/AnonSearchServlet</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

@JonathanLaliberte It's from my index.jsp page (localhost:8080/index.jsp) — CharisAlex, Sep 19 '17 at 12:06
@VinothKrishnan there are not errors in console. After i push the submit button nothing happens. — CharisAlex, Sep 19 '17 at 12:07
try adding "/" to the form action.. Try restarting the server too /rebuild. — Jonathan Laliberte, Sep 19 '17 at 12:09
nothing strange here you just need to call localhost:port/index.html or .jsp — Ahmad Al-Kurdi, Sep 19 '17 at 12:11
@DeedarAliBrohi That's the most frustrating part. I get no error from the server. It's just unresponsive i push the button and nothing happens. — CharisAlex, Sep 19 '17 at 12:19
@JonathanLaliberte Did that still nothing. Just no response, from the server when i use the submit button of the form. — CharisAlex, Sep 19 '17 at 12:20
@CharisAlex if the page doesn't change at all when you click the submit button, then the form is not being submitted. You can check the network panel to see if anything is being submitted. If nothing is being submitted, you are either not using a submit button or have some javascript somewhere preventing it from being submitted. — Jonathan Laliberte, Sep 19 '17 at 12:24
@JonathanLaliberte Actually it's a piece of JavaScript code with a switch case for some forms in a login modal that bugged the form. It has a $("form").submit(function () and a deault case where it returns false. Thanks for the hint! — CharisAlex, Sep 19 '17 at 12:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 19 '17 at 12:31

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@CharisAlex here is the problem in your jsp page <button> tag doesn't submit form action so you have to modify your code

<button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger btn-lg">Search</button>`

replace into

<input type='submit' class='btn btn-danger btn-lg' value="Search" />

answered Sep 19 '17 at 12:31

Deedar Ali Brohi

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Thanks for the suggestion. But it was actually a segment of JavaScript code that prevented the posting of the form. – CharisAlex Sep 19 '17 at 13:11

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 19 '17 at 12:45

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Try to use

<input type="submit" value="submit">

instead of using

<button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger btn-lg">Search </button>

edited Sep 19 '17 at 12:45

Al Foиce ѫ

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answered Sep 19 '17 at 12:22

rishav prasher

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Use what instead of what? Please be more specific! – CharisAlex Sep 19 '17 at 12:23
use input tag with type submit to create button – rishav prasher Sep 19 '17 at 12:27
sorry m new to this stack overflow so i didn't know how to enter html tags in this. – rishav prasher Sep 19 '17 at 12:41
Thanks for the suggestion. But it was actually a segment of JavaScript code that prevented the posting of the form. – CharisAlex Sep 19 '17 at 13:11

Post Form won't call Servlet

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