SimpleForm.java

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package org.melati.template;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

/**
 * Mimicking the $Form behaviour of Webmacro in Velocity and Freemarker, 
 * possibly not a good thing. 
 * 
 * @author timp
 * @since  1 Apr 2008
 *
 */
public class SimpleForm {

  /**
   * The request object from the VelocityContext.
   */
  final HttpServletRequest _request;
  
  /**
   * Constructor.
   */
  public SimpleForm(final HttpServletRequest r) {
    _request = r;
  }

  /**
   * Get a form value.
   * NOTE this only returns the first value for a parameter. 
   */
  final public String get(String formFieldName) {
      return  _request.getParameter(formFieldName);
  }

}