Question

I have a list containing users. I am trying to print it in JSP but some how I am not able to get it to print it using spring:bind. I get an exception. The reason I am trying to use spring:bind is to invole @Formatting annotation.

Code in JSP

<c:forEach items="${users}" var="user" varStatus="status">
   <spring:bind path="users[${status.index}].name">
      <c:out value="${status.value}" />
   </spring:bind>
</c:forEach>

Controller

ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView("go_some_JSP_page");
List<UserEntity> users = userManager.getAllObjects();
modelAndView.addObject("users", users);

BTW, UserEntity has name field. If I remove the binding and try to print the user.name using <c:out value="user.name" /> it prints the value

A test sample code exists at https://github.com/hth/StatusInvoke.git

Please take a look at landing.jsp line 35

Let me know if you face any problem deploying it.

Answer 1

The correct answer to invoke @NumberFormat annotation is by using spring:eval expression tag

<spring:eval expression="user.balance" />