/**
* Buy a new holding of shares for the given trader Dispatch to the Trade Portfolio JSP for
* display
*
* @param userID The User buying shares
* @param symbol The stock to purchase
* @param amount The quantity of shares to purchase
* @param ctx the servlet context
* @param req the HttpRequest object
* @param resp the HttpResponse object
* @exception javax.servlet.ServletException If a servlet specific exception is encountered
* @exception javax.io.IOException If an exception occurs while writing results back to the user
*/
void doBuy(
ServletContext ctx,
HttpServletRequest req,
HttpServletResponse resp,
String userID,
String symbol,
String quantity)
throws ServletException, IOException {
String results = "";
try {
OrderDataBean orderData =
tAction.buy(
userID, symbol, new Double(quantity).doubleValue(), TradeConfig.orderProcessingMode);
req.setAttribute("orderData", orderData);
req.setAttribute("results", results);
} catch (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) { // this is a user error so I will
// forward them to another page rather than throw a 500
req.setAttribute("results", results + "illegal argument:");
requestDispatch(ctx, req, resp, userID, TradeConfig.getPage(TradeConfig.HOME_PAGE));
// log the exception with an error level of 3 which means, handled exception but would
// invalidate a automation run
Log.error(
e,
"TradeServletAction.doBuy(...)",
"illegal argument. userID = " + userID,
"symbol = " + symbol);
} catch (Exception e) {
// log the exception with error page
throw new ServletException(
"TradeServletAction.buy(...)"
+ " exception buying stock "
+ symbol
+ " for user "
+ userID,
e);
}
requestDispatch(ctx, req, resp, userID, TradeConfig.getPage(TradeConfig.ORDER_PAGE));
}
