Question

I have spring 2.5 application and several pages in the flow work perfectly – they progress according to my flow.xml. The page that is “broken” has the submit in the form:

<input type="image" name="_eventId_submit" src="<c:url value="images/continue.png" />" />

the flow definition for this page looks correct:

<view-state id="coverages" view="tiles.coverages" model="rtrForm">
    <on-entry>
 ...
    </on-entry>
    <transition on="submit" to="policyVehicleDetailsDecisionForward">
        <evaluate expression="coverageFormAction.bindAndValidate" />
        <evaluate expression="coverageFormAction.evaluateCoverages(rtrForm)" />
    </transition>
</view-state>

I have debug statements in the mainFlowAction.evaluateCoverages(…) and I don’t see this in the log file but I also don’t see any exceptions – anyone know where to go from here? I’ve attached eclipse to Tomcat 6.0.33 to do remote debugging and I still don’t see any exceptions coming across the wire…I’m stumped at this point and have no clue how to figure this out – any help or suggestions would be welcomed.

So I’ve taken this a few steps further and I’ve overriden the QuoteFormAction.bindAndValidate() method and sadly, I’m not seeing this method being invoked in the logs – so I’m assuming at this point that the form isn’t even invoking that…I’m using the same pattern that I have for all of the pages that do work. I’ve abbreviated the form – maybe I’m overlooking something obvious:

<form id="rtrForm" action="/rtrSite/main.svc?execution=e1s5" method="post">
...
<select name="quoteForm.policyLevelCoverages.towing" class="violationType" id="TOWING"  validate="selectOneOption" req="">
...
<select name="quoteForm.vehicleLevelCoverages[0].rental" class="violationType" id="RENTAL"  validate="selectOneOption" req="">
...
<input type="image" name="_eventId_submit" src="images/continue.png" />
<input type="image" name="_eventId_save" src="images/save.png" value='Save -n- Return' />
<input type="image" src="images/back.png" name="_eventId_back" value='Back' />
<input type="reset" id="reset" />
</form>

JSP Form generation:

<c:forEach var="policyCoverageList" varStatus="policyCoverageStatus" items="${quoteForm.coverages.jspCoverageCodesPolLevel}">

          <spring:bind path="quoteForm.policyLevelCoverages.${fn:toLowerCase(policyCoverageList.coverageCode)}" >
           <select name="${status.expression}" class="violationType" id="${policyCoverageList.coverageCode}"  validate="selectOneOption" req="">
                <c:if test="${policyCoverageList.isRequired == 'N'}">
                   <option value="-1"><spring:message code="coverage.decline" /></option>
                 </c:if>
                 <c:forEach var="policyCoverage" items="${policyCoverageList.limits}">
                     <option value="${policyCoverage.id}" <c:if test="${policyCoverage == 'TODO'}">SELECTED</c:if>>
                          ${policyCoverage.coverageLimits}
                      </option>
                  </c:forEach>
              </select>
           </spring:bind>

</c:forEach>

Answer 1

Is it returning back to the "tiles.coverages" view every time? If it is, I would assume you are having some kind of binding/validation errors. In the jsp put in <form:errors path="*"/> to see if that’s true.

Edit:

Are both those two selects non-null and the second not empty? So for

quoteForm.vehicleLevelCoverages[0].rental

There is at least one element in the vehicleLevelCoverages list/array?

One side not:

Are you using Spring Weblflow 2? If you are you dont need to do bindAndValidate it does it for you anyway.