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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By: Sherwin John C. Tragura

Overview of this book

The Spring framework has been the go-to framework for Java developers for quite some time. It enhances modularity, provides more readable code, and enables the developer to focus on developing the application while the underlying framework takes care of transaction APIs, remote APIs, JMX APIs, and JMS APIs. The upcoming version of the Spring Framework has a lot to offer, above and beyond the platform upgrade to Java 9, and this book will show you all you need to know to overcome common to advanced problems you might face. Each recipe will showcase some old and new issues and solutions, right from configuring Spring 5.0 container to testing its components. Most importantly, the book will highlight concurrent processes, asynchronous MVC and reactive programming using Reactor Core APIs. Aside from the core components, this book will also include integration of third-party technologies that are mostly needed in building enterprise applications. By the end of the book, the reader will not only be well versed with the essential concepts of Spring, but will also have mastered its latest features in a solution-oriented manner.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Form validation and parameter type conversion


The advantage of using form backing objects in implementing request parameter handling is attributed to the ease of applying form input rules and validation to the incoming request data. Moreover, type conversion of some request parameters that are non-string can be done using property editors included in the framework.

Getting started

Open again the Eclipse STS ch03 project and perform the following steps for implementing the validator and input type conversion mechanism on simple form controllers without using any client-side scripts and services.

How to do it...

To apply form validation and input type conversion, do the following procedures:

  1. The validation process will progress after modifying the EmployeeForm form model of the previous recipe to contain three more request data, namely the email, age, and birthday of the employee:
public class EmployeeForm { 
  
  private String firstName; 
  private String lastName; 
  private String position;...