Processors have access to dedicated API classes, objects, and methods.

Table 1. Processor API components
Class, object, or methodDescription
g_response An object of type HttpServletResponse. See GlideServletResponse.
setContentType(‘text/html;charset=UTF-8’) A GlideServletResponse method to set the content type of the response being sent to the client.
g_request An object of type HttpServletRequest. See HttpServletRequest.
getParameter() A glide method to get the value of a URL parameter.
canRead() A GlideRecord method to determine if the user can read data from a table. See GlideRecord.
g_processor A simplified servlet for processors. See GlideScriptedProcessor.
writeOutput() A GlideScriptedProcessor method to display information on the client.
g_target An object containing the target table name of a processor URL. For example, a processor containing the URI incident.do applies to the Incident table.