How to access arraylist in javascript

[jophinmichael]

I am having an arraylist with string values stored in it.I want to access that arraylist in javascript so that i can manipulate the values stored in it.

jophin

[Guffa]

That is impossible. The ArrayList exists in the server code, and Javascript is client code. You can't share objects between server code and client code. There are two reasons for this, which each by themselves makes it impossible: :: The server code and client code doesn't exist in the same place. :: The server code and client code doesn't exist at the same time. The server code runs on the server to create the web page. At this time the client code doesn't exist. The page is sent to the browser, and the client code is executed. At this time the server code is no longer running. If you want to send data from the server code to the client code, you put the data in the web page that is created. For example by creating Javascript code that recreates the data, or putting it in hidden fields in a form on the page. You can't send the data back to the server code that sent the data, as that code is no longer running. You have to make a new request to the server so that the execution of the code starts over. You have to send the manipulated data in the request, for example by putting it in hidden fields in a form and posting the form.

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