Does view template has implicit request object?

[Sury Sharma]

I have a Spring MVC TestController in which I'm setting a request attribute. I'm using velocity template for rendering the views.

@RequestMapping(value="/test", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView display(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp){
...
req.setAttribute("req1", "This should be present for first request");
...
}
In the velocity template I'm doing something like

Request: $request.getAttribute('req1')
but I'm not getting the value of req1. I know I should have put req1 in model map instead of request but I want to know about implicit request object ref.

I tried $req1 as well but its not working.

When I'm doing the same thing with the model and returning it back, everything is working correctly.

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks.

[Marten Deinum]

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You have 2 different requests and parameters are destroyed once the request is over. As stated by yourself use the model(map) and try to leave the request/response behind.