white spaces

[zenithwolf]

In my jsp I am getting data from a server and then sending it to an AJAXified html page where the data is read, now I'm not sure whether to put this in the AJAX forum or here, but one particular output I send from the jsp, the output has like 200 white spaces before the output, and no matter what i do, split, trim it it doesnt go away! help!

[ess]

Although it seems like white space to you and I....there are characters such as \n \r etc that would not be visible once rendered on a page.

try and remove these characters before outputting any data using regular expressions.

Note: Sometime these characters are replaced with <br/>

[zenithwolf]

agreed. But all I am doing is getting data from the server in my jsp function, and when i print it in the jsp function, it doesnt show any crazy spaces, and still trim it just to be sure, still no use, when the thing returns in AJAX, I get the huge space... and Im sure its not carriage returns or something like that its just big blank space!

[ess]

do you mind posting the output...so we know what we are looking at here..instead of making assumptions as to what might be the cause of the problem etc.

[zenithwolf]

this is the white space im talking about.



and this is the simple code that goes with it

if(xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200) {
	  // store processed response text
      var getVal = xmlHttp.responseText;
	  // display the value to user
	  default_servs = getVal;
	  alert("var getVal = xmlHttp.responseText = " + getVal);
}

[zenithwolf]

oh btw that code is in my .js ajax file, but the response comes from this function in my jsp:

public String calculateServ(recipe.ProcessIngredients ing, String query) {
ing.processRequest(query);
String outString = ing.getServings(query);
return outString;
}

the processRequest and getServings methods lie in my bean class files and are all ok and the getServings method returns String...will check that but I fail to see anything that might generate random blank spaces

[ess]

do you mind trying out this js function.

function clean(val) {
	return val.replace(/^\n{2,}/g, '').replace(/\n{2,}$/g, '').replace(/\n{2,}/g, '\n');
}

here is how you can call it using your script

if(xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200) {
	  // store processed response text
      var getVal = xmlHttp.responseText;
	  // display the value to user
	  default_servs = getVal;
	  alert("var getVal = xmlHttp.responseText = " + clean(getVal));
}

let's know if that worked or not.

cheers,
Ess

[zenithwolf]

nope still gives me all that space :/

[zenithwolf]

damn this thing is pissing me off, because (i think) of these spaces my responseXML cannot detect any of the HTML content in the response String!!

NEED HELP FAST!

[zenithwolf]

SOLUTION FOUND!

stupidest problem I have ever encountered...turns out the code after %> statements counted as an out.println();!!!!!!!!

i had to write my code this crazy way now:

<%@ page import="java.util.*"%><%@ 
page import="recipe.*"%><%@

bah congrats to jsps ><

[ess]

hahha...cannot believe that was causing the problem...but glad that you have found a solution.