I would like to know how to read a flash attributes after redirection in Spring MVC 3.1.
I have the following code:
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/foo")
public class FooController {
@RequestMapping(value = "/bar", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView handleGet(...) {
// I want to see my flash attributes here!
}
@RequestMapping(value = "/bar", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public ModelAndView handlePost(RedirectAttributes redirectAttrs) {
redirectAttrs.addFlashAttributes("some", "thing");
return new ModelAndView().setViewName("redirect:/foo/bar");
}
}
What I am missing?
Use Model
, it should have flash attributes prepopulated:
@RequestMapping(value = "/bar", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView handleGet(Model model) {
String some = (String) model.asMap().get("some");
// do the job
}
or, alternatively, you can use RequestContextUtils#getInputFlashMap
:
@RequestMapping(value = "/bar", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView handleGet(HttpServletRequest request) {
Map<String, ?> inputFlashMap = RequestContextUtils.getInputFlashMap(request);
if (inputFlashMap != null) {
String some = (String) inputFlashMap.get("some");
// do the job
}
}
P.S. You can do return return new ModelAndView("redirect:/foo/bar");
in handlePost
.
EDIT:
JavaDoc says:
A RedirectAttributes model is empty when the method is called and is
never used unless the method returns a redirect view name or a
RedirectView.
It doesn't mention ModelAndView
, so maybe change handlePost to return "redirect:/foo/bar"
string or RedirectView
:
@RequestMapping(value = "/bar", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public RedirectView handlePost(RedirectAttributes redirectAttrs) {
redirectAttrs.addFlashAttributes("some", "thing");
return new RedirectView("/foo/bar", true);
}
I use RedirectAttributes
in my code with RedirectView
and model.asMap()
method and it works OK.
Try this:
@Controller
public class FooController
{
@RequestMapping(value = "/foo")
public String handleFoo(RedirectAttributes redirectAttrs)
{
redirectAttrs.addFlashAttribute("some", "thing");
return "redirect:/bar";
}
@RequestMapping(value = "/bar")
public void handleBar(@ModelAttribute("some") String some)
{
System.out.println("some=" + some);
}
}
works in Spring MVC 3.2.2
For all those like me who were having problems with seeing the POST url in the browser when a validation would fail.
The POST url is a private url that should not be exposed to users but it was automatically rendered when a validation failed. i.e. if a field was below a minimum length. I was using @Valid. I wanted the original GET url of the form to show at all times even when validation bounced back to the form, so I did the following:
if (validation.hasErrors()) {
redirectAttributes.addFlashAttribute("org.springframework.validation.BindingResult.story", validation);
redirectAttributes.addFlashAttribute("story", story);
return new ModelAndView("redirect:/january/2015");
where story is the form object representation, redirectAttributes are RedirectAttributes you put in the method signature and validation is the BindingResult. /january/2015 is the mapping to the GET controller where the form lives.
After this implementation, in the mapping for /january/2015, story comes in intact as follows:
Story story= (Story) model.asMap().get("story");
//story from the POST method
I had to augment my GET method and check if this was not null. If not null, then send this to the form else I would send a newly initialized Story type to the form as default behaviour before.
In this manner, I am able to return to the form with the bindingresults intact (errors show on form) but have my GET url in place of the post url.