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SPRING COOKBOOK

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SPRING COOKBOOK

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Spring Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using a list of radio buttons


In this recipe, you'll learn how to display a list of radio buttons. When the form is submitted, retrieve the selected value in a controller method.

How to do it…

  1. In the controller, add a @ModelAttribute method returning Map object:

    @ModelAttribute("countries")
    public Map<String, String>countries() {
      Map<String, String> m = new HashMap<String, String>();
      m.put("us", "United States");
      m.put("ca", "Canada");
      m.put("fr", "France");
      m.put("de", "Germany");
      return m;
    }
  2. If a default value is necessary, use a String attribute of the default object (refer to the Setting a form's default values using a model object recipe) initialized with one of the Map keys:

    user.setCountry("ca");
  3. In the JSP, use a form:radiobuttons element initialized with the @ModelAttribute Map:

    <form:radiobuttons items="${countries}" path="country" />
  4. In the controller processing the form submission, make sure that the @ModelAttribute object (the one used to save the...