Is formBackingObject necessary to get onSubmit to work? I decided to use handleRequestInternal to view the form but my submit button does not do anything.

    <bean name="/instructor/addOnlineAssignment.html"
        class="csns.spring.controller.instructor.AddOnlineAssignmentController">
        <property name="commandName" value="OnlineAssignment" />
        <property name="commandClass" value="csns.model.assignment.OnlineAssignment" />
        <property name="sectionDao" ref="sectionDao" />
        <property name="formView" value="instructor/addOnlineAssignment" />
        <property name="successView" value="redirect:/instructor/addOnlineAssignmentQuestions.html" />
    </bean>

Am I missing anything in the bean? I have been staring at this page and for hours now and no progress.

    protected ModelAndView onSubmit( HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response, Object command, BindException errors ) {
           
            OnlineAssignment onlineAssignment = (OnlineAssignment) command;
           
            return new ModelAndView( getSuccessView() );   
    }

I right now I am not actually adding the online assignment. I just want to be able to redirect the success view. Any tips?

    So the following should be enough to get me to the success view. I still dont understand why its not working hmmm.

    CONTROLLER

    protected ModelAndView onSubmit( HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response, Object command, BindException errors ) {
           
            return new ModelAndView( getSuccessView() );   
    }

    XML

    <bean name="/instructor/addOnlineAssignment.html"
        class="csns.spring.controller.instructor.AddOnlineAssignmentController">
        <property name="sectionDao" ref="sectionDao" />
        <property name="formView" value="instructor/addOnlineAssignment" />
        <property name="successView" value="redirect:/instructor/addOnlineAssignmentQuestions.html" />
    </bean>

    JSP

<form:form>
<input type="hidden" name="sectionId" value="${section.id}" />
<table border="0">

  <tr><td colspan="2"><input class="subbutton" type="submit" value="Next" /></td></tr>
</table>
</form:form>

Hey,

I had that same problem for a while, where I would hit submit but nothing happens. Then I realized that I had to include

<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %>

so that it would recognize the form:form tag.

Just in case that helps...

e.laverdi wrote:

    So the following should be enough to get me to the success view. I still dont understand why its not working hmmm.

    CONTROLLER

    protected ModelAndView onSubmit( HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response, Object command, BindException errors ) {
           
            return new ModelAndView( getSuccessView() );   
    }

    XML

    <bean name="/instructor/addOnlineAssignment.html"
        class="csns.spring.controller.instructor.AddOnlineAssignmentController">
        <property name="sectionDao" ref="sectionDao" />
        <property name="formView" value="instructor/addOnlineAssignment" />
        <property name="successView" value="redirect:/instructor/addOnlineAssignmentQuestions.html" />
    </bean>

    JSP

<form:form>
<input type="hidden" name="sectionId" value="${section.id}" />
<table border="0">

  <tr><td colspan="2"><input class="subbutton" type="submit" value="Next" /></td></tr>
</table>
</form:form> 

You should have the commandName and commandClass in the bean specification. Also add the command name to the <form> tag, i.e. <form:form commandName="...">.

And do a "View Source" in your browser and see if the form is generated correctly.

Add a logging statement in onSubmit to see if the controller received the post request.

e.laverdi wrote:

I seems like it kind find the OnlineAssignment class. Am I missing something? I checked the paths and are all correct. Attached is log

...

Does your OnlineAssignment class has a zero-argument constructor?

e.laverdi wrote:

Yes it does.

Then try overriding the formBackingObject method.

e.laverdi wrote:

Will do try that

OK, I know what's going on. Your handleRequestInternal() returns a view directly, thus bypasses the superclass's formBackingObject(). You should set "section" as a request parameter, then return "super.handleRequestInternal( request, response )". See TakeSurveyController for a properly written handleRequestInternal(). Also note that the access modifier for handleRequestInternal() should be protected, not public. Be careful with method signatures, or use the annotation @Override to make sure that you are actually overriding a superclass method, not creating a new one.