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Using Servlets in SAP MII

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Former Member

on ‎2012 Aug 24 3:17 PM

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Hi all,

     I need to use servlet instead of applets in SAP MII 12.1. Is it possible to use servlets in this version?  If so can anyone guide me to proceed the same in creating xsl from the generated xml?

Thanks in advance

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‎2013 Jun 18 2:24 PM
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It might be too late here 10 months later, but 53 page views and counting, i just share a quick demo we use in real life production.

The point of the demo (copy of real code) is turn a query result with ID numbers and textual names (of control charts) into a bulleted (unordered) HTML list of dynamical generated links to the irpt page that can renderer the charts only given this ID number

Point is it is very little code, very fast and done server side so no browser depedencies.

irpt file calls the servlet:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
</head>
<body>
<div>
<servlet name="Illuminator">
  <param name="QueryTemplate" value="q_getSpecs" />
  <param name="Param.1" value="1" />
  <param name="Param.2" value="99999" />
  <param name="Stylesheet" value="/XMII/CM/DemoProject/Transforms/LinkList.xsl" />
  <param name="elementName" value="selChart" />
  <param name="idName" value="id" />
  <param name="fieldName" value="title" />
</servlet>
</div>
</body>
</html>

QT q_getSpecs returns (amongst others) id and name of control chart.

Notice the call to "stylesheet" "/XMII/CM/IM1/Kontrolkort/Transforms/LinkList.xsl"! the content is below here:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  @param: elementName = name and id of the element
  @param: idName  = column name of the value column
  @param: fieldName = column name of the text column
  
  optional
  @param: className = name of the css class
  @param: multiple = multi select or single drop down box (true or false)
  @param: size  = number of items
  @param: onchange = function to call on select
-->
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="html" media-type="text/html" encoding="windows-1252"/>
  <xsl:param name="elementName"/>
  <xsl:param name="idName"/>
  <xsl:param name="fieldName"/>
  <xsl:param name="className"/>
  <xsl:param name="multiple"/>
  <xsl:param name="size"/>
  <xsl:param name="onchange"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:element name="ul">
      <xsl:for-each select="//Row">
        <xsl:element name="li">
          <xsl:element name="a">
            <xsl:attribute name="href">
              <xsl:text>spc.irpt?id=</xsl:text>
              <xsl:if test="string-length(*[name()=$idName]) &lt; 4">
                <xsl:text>0</xsl:text>
              </xsl:if>
              <xsl:value-of select="*[name()=$idName]"/>
            </xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:if test="string-length(*[name()=$idName]) &lt; 4">
              <xsl:text>0</xsl:text>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:value-of select="*[name()=$idName]"/>
            <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="*[name()=$fieldName]"/>
          </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
        <xsl:text>
        </xsl:text>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Demo result (server side generated XHTML):

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
</head>
<body>
<div>
<ul>
(...)
<li>
<a href="spc.irpt?id=7024">7024 Batchrapport-tid FIN_IA_DRY_MIXER_RAP</a>
</li>
        
<li>
<a href="spc.irpt?id=7025">7025 LMES Receptfrigivelsesstid: FIN_IA_VASKM</a>
</li>
        
<li>
<a href="spc.irpt?id=7026">7026 LMES Receptfrigivelsesstid: CIP_SELVCIP_196C</a>
</li>
(...)
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>

You see, we get the expected <ul> and <a> tags with the dynamical inserted texts!

I found this syntax way ago using the spcchartservlet that generates some xhtml and xslt code (not very clever but it does) and just adjusted it for flexibility of the server side rendering of images. But the value and potential use is greatly underestimated IMO. I'm just a total XSLT newbie and debugging XSLT is very hard in the environemnt, that's the greatest barrier at the moment.

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