Example Spring 4 MVC – Form

admin — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:59:32 +0000

This example presents the basic concept of using forms in Spring MVC.

The technologies used are :

You can convert this example to an Eclipse IDE project by going to folder where is the pom.xml is, and use the command :

mvn eclipse:eclipse

Inspired from « Beginning Spring » Mert Caliskan, Kenan Sevindik, Rod Johnson (Foreword by), Jürgen Höller (Foreword by).

package javaspringexamples.spring.mvcform.domain;

import java.time.LocalDate;

import javax.validation.constraints.Size;

import org.springframework.format.annotation.DateTimeFormat;

/**
 * 
 * @author mounir.sahrani@gmail.com
 *
 */
public class User {

	@Size(min = 3, max = 14)
	private String name;
	@Size(min = 3, max = 14)
	private String lastname;
	private String password;
	private String detail;
	@DateTimeFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd")
	private LocalDate birthDate;
	private Gender gender;
	private String country;
	private boolean nonSmoking;

	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}

	public String getLastname() {
		return lastname;
	}

	public void setLastname(String lastname) {
		this.lastname = lastname;
	}

	public String getPassword() {
		return password;
	}

	public void setPassword(String password) {
		this.password = password;
	}

	public String getDetail() {
		return detail;
	}

	public void setDetail(String detail) {
		this.detail = detail;
	}

	public LocalDate getBirthDate() {
		return birthDate;
	}

	public void setBirthDate(LocalDate birthDate) {
		this.birthDate = birthDate;
	}

	public Gender getGender() {
		return gender;
	}

	public void setGender(Gender gender) {
		this.gender = gender;
	}

	public String getCountry() {
		return country;
	}

	public void setCountry(String country) {
		this.country = country;
	}

	public boolean isNonSmoking() {
		return nonSmoking;
	}

	public void setNonSmoking(boolean nonSmoking) {
		this.nonSmoking = nonSmoking;
	}
}

package javaspringexamples.spring.mvcform.domain;

/**
 * 
 * @author mounir.sahrani@gmail.com
 *
 */
public enum Gender {
	MALE,
	FEMALE;
}

package javaspringexamples.spring.mvcform.controller;

import javax.validation.Valid;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

import javaspringexamples.spring.mvcform.domain.Gender;
import javaspringexamples.spring.mvcform.domain.User;

/**
 * 
 * @author mounir.sahrani@gmail.com
 *
 */
@Controller
public class UserController {

	private static final String[] countries = { "Morocco", "United States", "France" };

	@RequestMapping(value = "/form")
	public ModelAndView user() {
		ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView("userForm", "user", new User());
		modelAndView.addObject("genders", Gender.values());
		modelAndView.addObject("countries", countries);

		return modelAndView;
	}

	@RequestMapping(value = "/result")
	public ModelAndView processUser(@Valid User user, BindingResult result) {
		ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView();
		modelAndView.addObject("user", user);

		if (result.hasErrors()) {
			modelAndView.addObject("genders", Gender.values());
			modelAndView.addObject("countries", countries);
			modelAndView.setViewName("userForm");
		} else {
			modelAndView.setViewName("userResult");
		}

		return modelAndView;
	}
}

Size.user.name=Error format: at least 3, max 14.
Size.user.lastname=Error format: at least 3, max 14.
Pattern.user.password=Error format: at least 4 letters, max 15.



	
		springmvc
		org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
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		springmvc
		*.mvc

<% response.sendRedirect("form.mvc"); %>

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="mvc"%>


JavaSpringExamples Spring MVC Form



	Form
	
		
			
				Name
				
				
			
			
				Last Name
				
				
			
			
				Password
				
				
			
			
				Detail
				
			
			
				Birth Date
				
			
			
				Gender
				
			
			
				Country
				
			
			
				Non Smoking

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="mvc"%>


JavaSpringExamples Spring MVC Form


	Result
	
		
			Name
			${user.name}
		
		
			Last name
			${user.lastname}
		
		
			Password
			${user.password}
		
		
			Detail
			${user.detail}
		
		
			Birth Date
			${user.birthDate}
		
		
			Gender
			${user.gender}
		
		
			Country
			${user.country}
		
		
			Non-Smoking
			${user.nonSmoking}

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Name
Last Name
Password
Detail
Birth Date
Gender
Country
Non Smoking

Name	${user.name}
Last name	${user.lastname}
Password	${user.password}
Detail	${user.detail}
Birth Date	${user.birthDate}
Gender	${user.gender}
Country	${user.country}
Non-Smoking	${user.nonSmoking}

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Example Spring 4 MVC – Form

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