Question

i have to call one controller on the basis of first controller i have to call another controller ……
but this is not working in spring 3 mvc……..

@Controller
public class ajaxContoller {
      @RequestMapping(value="/mmiFacade",method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public  @ResponseBody String mmiFacade(@RequestParam String sType){
                       String forwardName = "";          
        if (sType.equalsIgnoreCase("Pincode")) {

            forwardName = "forward:/pincodeAction";
        } else if (sType.equalsIgnoreCase("Locality")) {

            forwardName = "forward:/localityAction";
        } else if (sType.equalsIgnoreCase("Patient")) {

            forwardName = "forward:/patientAction";
        } else if (sType.equalsIgnoreCase("Dlhdata")) {

            forwardName = "forward:/Dlhdata";
        } 
           return forward;  

    }



    @RequestMapping(value="/pincodeAction",method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public @ResponseBody String ajax(){
            return "hiii";

    }
 @RequestMapping(value="/localityAction",method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public @ResponseBody String ajax1(){
            return "hiii1";

    }


}

Answer 1

You should return modelandview object. view name starting with “forward:/” will do the job, otherwise Spring does not even try to interpret the response.
Another option to implement a switch and to invoke other mapping as simple call to anther java function.