I am trying to output some model data to a pdf using spring-mvc. It is not working and I was wondering if someone could offer some advice.
I have a spring-servlet.xml file that includes the following:
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="order" value="1"/>
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
<bean id="xmlViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.XmlViewResolver">
<property name="order" value="2"/>
<property name="location">
<value>/WEB-INF/spring-pdf-views.xml</value>
</property>
</bean>
In the spring-pdf-views.xml file I have this:
<bean id="MyPDF" class="com.example.MyPDFView"/>
This is my MyPDFView class:
public class MyPDFView extends AbstractPdfView {
@Override
protected void buildPdfDocument(Map<String, Object> model, Document document, PdfWriter writer,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
Map<String, String> data = (Map<String, String>) model.get("modelData");
Table table = new Table(2);
table.addCell("Date");
table.addCell("Name");
table.addCell(data.get("modelData.dateValue"));
table.addCell(data.get("modelData.nameValue"));
document.add(table);
}
}
Finally in my controller I have:
@RequestMapping(value="/pdfInformation", method=RequestMethod.POST)
public ModelAndView showPDF(ModelMap model, PDFInfo pdfInfo, BindingResult result) {
return new ModelAndView("MyPDF", model);
}
The problem I am seeing in the output is that it never gets to the xmlViewResolver. It is trying to render the MyPDF as a JSTL View. This is from my logs:
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Rendering view [org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView: name 'MyPDF'; URL [/WEB-INF/view/MyPDF.jsp]] in DispatcherServlet with name 'spring'
What am I missing?