In this tutorial, we show you how to develop a Spring MVC annotation-based MultiActionController, by using @RequestMapping. In XML-based MultiActionController, you have to configure the method name resolver (InternalPathMethodNameResolver, PropertiesMethodNameResolver or ParameterMethodNameResolver) to map the URL to a particular method name. But, life is more easier with annotation support, now you can use @RequestMapping annotation …
Spring MVC comes with AbstractPdfView class to export data to pdf file via Bruno Lowagie’s iText library. In this tutorial, it show the use of AbstractPdfView class in Spring MVC application to export data to pdf file for download. 1. iText Get the iText library to generate the pdf file. <!– Pdf library –> <dependency> …
Spring MVC comes with AbstractJExcelView class to export data to Excel file via JExcelAPI library. In this tutorial, it show the use of AbstractJExcelView class in Spring MVC application to export data to Excel file for download. 1. JExcelAPI Get the JExcelAPI library. <!– JExcelAPI library –> <dependency> <groupId>net.sourceforge.jexcelapi</groupId> <artifactId>jxl</artifactId> <version>2.6.3</version> </dependency> 2. Controller A …
Spring MVC comes with AbstractExcelView class to export data to Excel file via Apache POI library. In this tutorial, it show the use of AbstractExcelView class in Spring MVC application to export data to Excel file for download. 1. Apache POI Get the Apache POI library to create the excel file. <!– Excel library –> …
ParameterMethodNameResolver, a MultiActionController method name resolver to map URL to method name via request parameter name, and the parameter name is customizable through the “paramName” property. See following example : 1. MultiActionController A MultiActionController example. package com.mkyong.common.controller; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView; import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.multiaction.MultiActionController; public class CustomerController extends MultiActionController{ public ModelAndView add(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse …
PropertiesMethodNameResolver, a flexible MultiActionController method name resolver, to define the mapping between the URL and method name explicitly. See following example : 1. MultiActionController A MultiActionController example. package com.mkyong.common.controller; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView; import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.multiaction.MultiActionController; public class CustomerController extends MultiActionController{ public ModelAndView add(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { return new ModelAndView("CustomerPage", "msg","add() …
In Spring MVC application, MultiActionController is used to group related actions into a single controller, the method handler have to follow below signature : public (ModelAndView | Map | String | void) actionName( HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse [,HttpSession] [,CommandObject]); 1. MultiActionController See a MultiActionController example. package com.mkyong.common.controller; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView; import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.multiaction.MultiActionController; public class …
In last Spring MVC form handling example, we should you the use of SimpleFormController to handle single page form submission, which is quite straightforward and easy. But, sometimes, you may need to deal with “wizard form“, which need handle form into multiple pages, and ask user to fill in the form page by page. The …
Problem In Spring MVC application, often times, you may applying few view resolver strategies to resolve the view name. For example, combine three view resolvers together : InternalResourceViewResolver, ResourceBundleViewResolver and XmlViewResolver. <beans …> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.XmlViewResolver"> <property name="location"> <value>/WEB-INF/spring-views.xml</value> </property> </bean> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ResourceBundleViewResolver"> <property name="basename" value="spring-views" /> </bean> <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" > <property name="prefix"> <value>/WEB-INF/pages/</value> </property> …
In Spring MVC, org.springframework.web.servlet.view.RedirectView, as name indicated, a view redirect to another absolute, context relative, or current request relative URL. In this tutorial, we show you a complete example to use RedirectView class. 1. RedirectView Declare a RedirectView bean, named “DummyRedirect“, redirect to URL “DummyRedirectPage.htm“. File : spring-views.xml <beans …> <!– Redirect view –> <bean …
In last Spring MVC form handling example, if you refresh the form success view, most browsers will prompt a pop-up dialog to confirm about the form resubmission. If you click “yes”, the form will be resubmitted again, this scenario is well-known as duplicated form submission. Figure : example of duplicated form submission. The common solution …
This tutorial shows you how to do form handling in Spring Web MVC application. Technologies and tools used: Java 11 Spring 5.2.22.RELEASE JSP JSTL 1.2 Embedded Jetty Server 9.4.45.v20220203 Servlet API 4.0.4 Bootstrap 5.2.0 (webjars) Hibernate Validator 6.2.5.Final HSQLDB 2.7.0 IntelliJ IDEA Maven 3.8.6 Spring Test 5.2.22.RELEASE Hamcrest 2.2 JUnit 5.9 Table of contents: 1. …
In Spring MVC, you can use <form:hidden /> to render a HTML hidden value field. For example, <form:hidden path="secretValue" /> It will render the following HTML code <input id="secretValue" name="secretValue" type="hidden" value="I’m hidden value"/> P.S Assume “secretValue” property contains value “I’m hidden value”. In this tutorial, we show you how to use Spring’s form tag …
In Spring MVC, the field error messages are generated by validators associated with the controller, and you can use the <form:errors /> tag to render those field error messages in an default HTML “span” tag. For example, 1. Validator A validator to check the “username” field, if empty, return the “required.username” error message from the …
In Spring MVC, form tags – <form:select />, <form:option /> or <form:options />, are used to render HTML dropdown box. See following examples : //SimpleFormController protected Map referenceData(HttpServletRequest request) throws Exception { Map referenceData = new HashMap(); Map<String,String> country = new LinkedHashMap<String,String>(); country.put("US", "United Stated"); country.put("CHINA", "China"); country.put("SG", "Singapore"); country.put("MY", "Malaysia"); referenceData.put("countryList", country); } 1. …
In Spring MVC, <form:radiobutton /> is used to render a HTML radio button, and the radio button values are hard coded inside the JSP page; While the <form:radiobuttons /> is used to render multiple radio buttons, and the radio button values are generated at runtime. In this tutorial, we show you how to use <form:radiobutton …
In Spring MVC, use <form:textarea /> to render a HTML textarea field. For example, <form:textarea path="address" rows="5" cols="30" /> It will render the following HTML code <textarea id="address" name="address" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea> In this tutorial, we show you how to use Spring’s form tag “textarea” to render a HTML textarea to store the “address“. Additionally, add …
In Spring MVC, <form:checkbox /> is used to render a HTML checkbox field, the checkbox values are hard-coded inside the JSP page; While the <form:checkboxes /> is used to render multiple checkboxes, the checkbox values are generated at runtime. In this tutorial, we show you 3 different ways of render HTML checkbox fields: 1. <form:checkbox …
In Spring MVC, you can use <form:password /> tag to render a HTML password field. For example, <form:password path="password" /> It will renders following HTML code <input id="password" name="password" type="password" value=""/> Note In Spring’s documentation, it mention about the ‘showPassword‘ attribute will display the password value, but it’s failed in my testing, may be you …
In Spring MVC, you can use <form:input /> tag to render a HTML textbox field. For example, <form:input path="userName" /> It will renders following HTML code <input id="userName" name="userName" type="text" value=""/> In this tutorial, we show you how to use Spring’s form tag “input” to render a HTML textbox to store the “userName“. Additionally, add …
In general, to return a view or page in Spring MVC application, you need to create a class, which extends the AbstractController , and return a ModelAndView() object. public class WelcomeController extends AbstractController{ @Override protected ModelAndView handleRequestInternal(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView("WelcomePage"); return model; } } In the bean …
In J2EE / servlet web application, you can map error page to specify exception like this : web.xml <error-page> <error-code>404</error-code> <location>/WEB-INF/pages/404.jsp</location> </error-page> <error-page> <exception-type>com.mkyong.web.exception.CustomException</exception-type> <location>/WEB-INF/pages/error/custom_error.jsp</location> </error-page> <error-page> <exception-type>java.lang.Exception</exception-type> <location>/WEB-INF/pages/generic_error.jsp</location> </error-page> The above code should be self-exploratory. If the exception handling function exists in the servlet container, why we still need to use the Spring to …
Problem In Spring MVC application, the 404 error code is configured properly. See the following web.xml snippet. File : web.xml <web-app …> <servlet> <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> //… <error-page> <error-code>404</error-code> <location>/WEB-INF/pages/404.htm</location> </error-page> </web-app> However, when user access any non-exist resources, it will display a blank page instead of the 404.htm. Solution …
In Spring MVC, ResourceBundleViewResolver is used to resolve “view named” based on view beans in “.properties” file. By default, ResourceBundleViewResolver will loads the view beans from file views.properties, which located at the root of the project class path. However, this location can be overridden through the “basename” property, for example, <beans …> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ResourceBundleViewResolver"> <property …
In Spring MVC, XmlViewResolver is used to resolve “view name” based on view beans in the XML file. By default, XmlViewResolver will loads the view beans from /WEB-INF/views.xml, however, this location can be overridden through the “location” property : <beans …> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.XmlViewResolver"> <property name="location"> <value>/WEB-INF/spring-views.xml</value> </property> </bean> </beans> In above case, it loads the …
In Spring MVC, InternalResourceViewResolver is used to resolve “internal resource view” (in simple, it’s final output, jsp or htmp page) based on a predefined URL pattern. In additional, it allow you to add some predefined prefix or suffix to the view name (prefix + view name + suffix), and generate the final view page URL. …
In Spring MVC application, comes with few “LocaleResolver” to support the internationalization or multiple languages features. In this tutorial, it shows a simple welcome page, display the message from properties file, and change the locale based on the selected language link. 1. Project Folder Directory structure of this example. 2. Properties file Two properties files …
Problem In Spring MVC application, while changing the locale with “org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor“, it hits the following error java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Cannot change HTTP accept header – use a different locale resolution strategy …AcceptHeaderLocaleResolver.setLocale(AcceptHeaderLocaleResolver.java:45) Solution In Spring MVC application, if you do not configure the Spring’s LocaleResolver, it will use the default AcceptHeaderLocaleResolver, which does not allow to change …
In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the log4j framework to do the logging in a Spring MVC web application. Technologies and tools used : Log4j 1.2.17 Spring 4.1.6.RELEASE Maven 3 Tomcat 6 Eclipse Kepler 4.3 Note By default, Spring (spring-core) is using the JCL (commons-logging) for logging, and the JCL has …
Spring MVC allow you to intercept web request through handler interceptors. The handler interceptor have to implement the HandlerInterceptor interface, which contains three methods : preHandle() – Called before the handler execution, returns a boolean value, “true” : continue the handler execution chain; “false”, stop the execution chain and return it. postHandle() – Called after …
Often times, you may mix use of multiple handler mappings strategy in Spring MVC development. For example, use ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping to map all the convention handler mappings, and SimpleUrlHandlerMapping to map other special handler mappings explicitly. <beans …> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping"> <property name="mappings"> <value> /index.htm=welcomeController /welcome.htm=welcomeController /main.htm=welcomeController /home.htm=welcomeController </value> </property> <property name="order" value="0" /> </bean> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping" …
In Spring MVC application, the SimpleUrlHandlerMapping is the most flexible handler mapping class, which allow developer to specify the mapping of URL pattern and handlers explicitly. The SimpleUrlHandlerMapping can be declared in two ways. 1. Method 1 – prop key The property keys are the URL patterns while the property values are the handler IDs …
In Spring MVC, ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping use convention to map requested URL to Controller (convention over configuration). It takes the Class name, remove the ‘Controller’ suffix if exists and return the remaining text, lower-cased and with a leading “/”. See following few examples to demonstrate the use of this ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping class. 1. Before and After By default, …
In Spring MVC, BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping is the default handler mapping mechanism, which maps URL requests to the name of the beans. For example, <beans …> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping"/> <bean name="/welcome.htm" class="com.mkyong.common.controller.WelcomeController" /> <bean name="/streetName.htm" class="com.mkyong.common.controller.StreetNameController" /> <bean name="/process*.htm" class="com.mkyong.common.controller.ProcessController" /> </beans> In above example, If URI pattern /welcome.htm is requested, DispatcherServlet will forward the request to the …
This tutorial shows you how to create a Spring Web MVC application with the Thymeleaf template. Technologies and tools used: Java 11 Spring 5.2.22.RELEASE Thymeleaf 3.0.15.RELEASE Embedded Jetty Server 9.4.45.v20220203 Servlet API 4.0.4 Bootstrap 5.2.0 (webjars) IntelliJ IDEA Maven 3.8.6 Spring Test 5.2.22.RELEASE Hamcrest 2.2 JUnit 5.9 Table of contents: 1. Spring Web MVC Basic …
Problem In Spring MVC development, developer try to set a value into a model, and display the value in JSP via EL, e.g ${msg}, but it just outputs the result as it is – ${msg}, not the “value” stored in the model. The EL is just not working in JSP, why? Spring’s Controller import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; …