Question

If I have the following HTML form:

<form id="myForm" action="/myFormHandler" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" id="fizz-id" name="fizz" value="3" />
    <input type="hidden" id="buzz-id" name="buzz" value="6" />
</form>

(Notice no submit button). And then I have the following jQuery:

$("#someButton").click(function() {
    $("#myForm").submit();
});

Then on the server-side (Spring MVC controller), do the hidden field ids or names get sent to the handler method?

@RequestMapping(value = "/myFormHandler.html", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public ModelAndView handleMyForm(
    @RequestParam("fizz-id") String fizz,
    @RequestParam("buzz-id") String buzz) {

    // Should I be looking for "fizz-id" or "fizz"???

}

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Its the name attribute that is sent to the server, so in this case you should look for “fizz”.

The id attribute is just used for client side interaction, it is not sent in the request to the server.