I am currently working on a web project and I have reached a point where I need to pass a hard-coded xml file from Java to JavaScript in order to parse it. However, I am facing some difficulties with this process as I am not sure about the exact steps to take. The XML data is stored in a String variable in my Java code, so my goal is to successfully pass this variable to JavaScript. It's worth mentioning that I am using Tomcat as the server for this project.
Here is the Java code snippet responsible for creating the XML:
@Path("/getXml")
@GET
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_XML)
@Consumes(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
public String getXml(@Context HttpServletRequest request) throws TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException{
try {
// Code for generating XML goes here
return xmlOutput;
} catch (ParserConfigurationException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(Searcher.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
And here is how I attempted to access the xmlOutput variable in my JavaScript code:
function test() {
var r=new XMLHttpRequest();
r.open("GET", "http://localhost:8080/WebApplication6/tavi/searcher/getXml" , false);
r.send();
var responseText = r.responseText;
alert(responseText);
}