getOutputStream and getWriter in servlet

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John Smith - 16 Jun 2006 08:37 GMT

In a servlet you can call either getOutputStream or getWriter but only one,
calling the other later gets an IllegalStateException. Is there a way of
finding out what has already been called?

Thanks

Jon

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hiwa - 16 Jun 2006 10:18 GMT

John Smith :

> In a servlet you can call either getOutputStream or getWriter but only one,
> calling the other later gets an IllegalStateException. Is there a way of
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> Jon

> calling the other later

Just don't do it.

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Andrea Desole - 16 Jun 2006 10:29 GMT

> In a servlet you can call either getOutputStream or getWriter but only one,
> calling the other later gets an IllegalStateException. Is there a way of
> finding out what has already been called?

the best solution is to know what you call. There is no point in writing
binary data to a writer. I would say this is also the meaning of the
exception.

Besides that, I'm afraid the only possibility to know that a method has
been called is to catch the exception when you try to call the other one.

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