Scenario 3: Calling a Job with context variables from a browser
This scenario describes how to call the Job you created in Scenario 2: Buffering output data on the webapp server from your browser with/without modifying the
values of the context variables.
Type the following URL into your browser: http://localhost:8080//export_job/services/export_job3?method=runJob
where “export_job” is the name of the webapp directory deployed in Tomcat
and “export_job3” is the name of the Job.

Click Enter to execute your Job from your
browser.

The Job uses the default values of the context variables:
nb_lines and lastname,
that is it generates three lines with the current date, first name and Ford
as a last name.
You can modify the values of the context variables directly from your browser.
To call the Job from your browser and modify the values of the two context
variables, type the following URL:
http://localhost:8080//export_job/services/export_job3?method=runJob&arg1=–context_param%20lastname=MASSY&arg2=–context_param%20nb_lines=2.
%20 stands for a blank space in the URL language. In the first argument
“arg1”, you set the value of the context variable to display “MASSY” as last
name. In the second argument “arg2”, you set the value of the context
variable to “2” to generate only two lines.
Click Enter to execute your Job from your
browser.

The Job generates two lines with MASSY as last name.