C-LANG Statements › ACTION Statement—Specify a Servlet Path

ACTION Statement—Specify a Servlet Path

The ACTION statement specifies the path to the servlet to be invoked in an HTTP job.

Supported Job Type

This statement is optional for the HTTP job type.

Syntax

This statement has the following format:

ACTION servlet_path

servlet_path

Specifies the path to the program or servlet to be invoked.

Limits: Up to 1024 characters; case-sensitive

Notes:

• Enclose values that contain delimiters (such as spaces) in double quotation marks.
• If you omit this statement from the job definition, you must specify the program or servlet path (action) in the SERVLET_URL statement. If the ACTION statement is omitted from the job definition, the agent assumes that the SERVLET_URL statement specifies the full path to the program or servlet.
• If you include this statement in the job definition, do not specify the program or servlet path (action) in the SERVLET_URL statement. If the ACTION statement is included in the job definition, the agent assumes that the SERVLET_URL statement specifies only the server host name.

Example: Specify the Servlet Path the HTTP Job Invokes

Suppose that you want to define a job to subscribe to a mailing list located on a local server. You want to add the email address test@abc.com to the list. The servlet path is /examples/servlets/servlet/TheServlet.

AGENT APPAGENT
INVOCATIONTYPE POST
SERVLET_URL http://localhost:8080
ACTION /examples/servlets/servlet/TheServlet
PARAMETER KEYWORD(key1) VALUE(subscribe)
PARAMETER KEYWORD(key2) VALUE(test@example.com)