Question

I have implemented custom validation for my JSP forms and when there are errors the form is returned with my errors bound to the BindingResult. My form looks like:

<form:form name="createCustomer" action="/practicemvc/customers/create/" method="POST" modelAttribute="customerBean">

    <form:errors />

    <label for="customerName">Name</label>
    <input type="text" name="name" id="customerName" value="${customerBean.name}" />
    <form:errors path="name" />

The errors are displayed through:

<form:errors />

But, they are not being displayed through:

<form:errors path="name" />

My errors are merged to the BindingResult with:

for(ErrorType errorType: validationResult.getErrors()) {
    bindingResult.addError(new ObjectError(errorType.getProperty(),
            new String[]{errorType.getErrorCode()}, null, null));
}

getProperty() will return “name”, and getErrorCode() returns the “INVALID_EMAIL”. “INVALID_EMAIL” translates to “Your email is invalid” through my messageSource bean. If I look at the contents of the errors in my BindingResult, everything seems ok, but they are not outputting as expected in my JSP. Any ideas?

Thanks, B

Answer 1

As far as I remember, to associate error message with a field you need a FieldError, where objectName is customerBean and field is the field name.