Configure success view to be the same form view

[Mark Reyes]

Hi,

I have a question about success view in Spring MVC 2.5.

Supposed my workflow is like this: I have a JSP which has a search functionality. On click of the find button,
I wanted to show the same jsp again with the table populated.
Here's my sample jsp.

<form:form method="post" commandName="equipmentdetail">	
	<p>
		<label for="assetTagLabel" class="label">Asset Tag No:</label>
		<form:input path="strAssetTagNo" />
	</p>			
	<input type="submit" value="Find" id="findButton">
</form:form>

<table id="eqptTable">
 	<caption>Equipment Data</caption>
 	<thead>
 		<tr>
 		</tr>
 	</thead>
 	<tbody>
 	</tbody>
 </table>

I configured my controller like this. Both form view and success view are the same.

	<bean id="eqptMaintenanceController" class="com.test.web.EqptMaintenanceController">
		<property name="commandName" value="equipmentdetail" />
		<property name="commandClass" value="com.test.domain.EquipmentDetailsVo" />
		<property name="formView" value="equipmentmaintenance" />
		<property name="successView" value="equipmentmaintenance" />
		<property name="equipmentManager" ref="simpleEquipmentTransManager" />
	</bean>

Here's my controller.

public class EqptMaintenanceController extends SimpleFormController {
	private SimpleEquipmentTransManager equipmentManager;
	
	protected ModelAndView onSubmit(HttpServletRequest request,
			HttpServletResponse response, Object command, BindException errors)
			throws Exception {
		EquipmentDetailsVo voDetail = (EquipmentDetailsVo) command;
		List<EquipmentDetailsVo> lstEquipments = equipmentManager
				.getEquipments(voDetail);
		request.setAttribute("equipmentlist", lstEquipments);
		return new ModelAndView(getSuccessView());
	}
}

Problem is, when I click the find button. I encounter below error.

Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'equipmentdetail' available as request attribute

On click of the find button, I wanted to retain the same criteria during the find and not clear it. I basically dont want to redirect but just a mere forward. Any thoughts?

[Mark Reyes]

Hi,

I found my solution. Just in case anybody will be interested.

I look at the javadocs of simpleformcontroller and saw the showform method.

Better read the javadocs next time..