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SPRING COOKBOOK

SPRING COOKBOOK

By : Jerome Jaglale, Yilmaz
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SPRING COOKBOOK

SPRING COOKBOOK

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By: Jerome Jaglale, Yilmaz

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This book is for you if you have some experience with Java and web development (not necessarily in Java) and want to become proficient quickly with Spring.
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Using text, textarea, password, and hidden fields


In this recipe, you will learn how to display a text field, textarea field, password field, and hidden field using Spring form tags. When the form is submitted, we will retrieve the field value in a controller method.

How to do it…

Here are the steps to display and process text fields:

  1. 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):

    user.setFirstName("Joe");
  2. In the JSP, use one of these Spring form tags:

    <form:input path="firstName" />
    <form:textarea path="firstName" />
    <form:password path="firstName" />
    <form:hidden path="firstName" />
  3. In the controller method processing the form submission, make sure that the @ModelAttribute object has a corresponding String attribute:

    public class User {
      private String firstName;
    ...

How it works…

The Spring form tag generates the HTML form field and populates it with the default value...

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