Servlets Basics 2 - error in request.getServletContext - "getServletContext() undefined"

[Ravi B]

Hello,

I am doing the homework for servlet_basics2 chapter from the WebProgramming Basics course. I'm trying to declare a variable of ServletContext class type as follows:

        ServletContext servletcontext = request.getServletContext();

        servcontext.setAttribute("Country", "USA");

I am getting an error as follows: The method getServletContext() is undefined for the type HttpServletRequest.

The example program "hello_scope_context" has the exact same declaration and it works fine, but when I declare it, it's giving me this error. Can you help? Thanks. Here is my code:

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package hwservlets;

import java.io.*;

import javax.servlet.*;

import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class GreetingServlet extends HttpServlet {

    @Override

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)

        throws ServletException, IOException {

        response.setContentType("text/html");

        response.setBufferSize(8192);

        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

        // Set Servlet wide scope attribute to be accessible by any servlet

        ServletContext servletcontext = request.getServletContext();

        servcontext.setAttribute("Country", "USA");

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[Ravi B]

Please read the last line as servletcontext.setAttribute("Country","USA");