Question

I’m trying to create a form which can be cancelled. I found that the class CancellableFormController exist. But couldn’t find a good explanation how to use it. Its my understanding that you have to give a variable with the request. But how do you do this inside a spring form? If someone could help me implement this. Or just point me towards a good tutorial, as I was unable to find one.

Thanks in advance,
David

Answer 1

This is part of the SimpleFormController API which is deprecated as of spring 3 so I would not encourage using it. A substitute class in annotated MVC does not really exist but can be provided using multiple request mappings (modded example from spring forum):

@RequestMapping(params="cancel=true")
public String doCancel() {
    return "cancelView";
}


@RequestMapping(params="cancel!=true")
public String formSubmit(@ModelAttribute MyModelObject obj) {
    processForm(obj);
    return "successView";
}