I'm making a registration page for a website. I understand that in order for a new User to be created, an id is required, so we have the field:
<input type="hidden" th:field="{*id} />
However, when I go to the page, I get the error I mentioned in this post's title.
Here is the form in question:
<form th:action="@{/users/register}" th:object="${user}" class="form-signin" method="POST">
<h2 class="form-signin-heading">Register</h2>
<input type="hidden" th:field="*{id}" />
<label for="inputUsername" class="sr-only">Username*</label>
<input type="text" th:field="*{username}" name="username" id="inputUsername" class="form-control" placeholder="Username" required="required" autofocus="autofocus" />
<label for="inputEmail" class="sr-only">Email Address*</label>
<input type="text" th:field="*{email}" name="email" id="inputEmail" class="form-control" placeholder="Email address" required="required" autofocus="autofocus" />
<label for="inputPassword" class="sr-only">Password</label>
<input type="password" th:field="*{password}" name="password" id="inputPassword" class="form-control" placeholder="Password" required="required" />
<label for="inputConfirmPassword" class="sr-only">Confirm Password</label>
<input type="password" th:field="${confirmPassword}" name="confirmPassword" id="inputConfirmPassword" class="form-control" placeholder="Confirm password" required="required" />
<button class="btn btn-lg btn-primary btn-block" type="submit">Register</button>
</form>
Here is my UserController:
@RequestMapping("/register")
public String registerAction(Model model) {
model.addAttribute("user", new User());
model.addAttribute("confirmPassword", "");
return "views/users/register";
}
@RequestMapping(value="/register", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String doRegister(User user) {
User savedUser = userService.save(user);
return "redirect:/"; //redirect to homepage
}
And the first part of the User entity:
@Entity
@Table(name = "users")
public class User {
// Default constructor require by JPA
public User() {}
@Column(name = "id")
@Id @GeneratedValue
private Long id;
public void setId(long id) {
this.id = id;
}
public long getId() {
return id;
}
From what I can see, there's nothing wrong here so I'm stuck.
I'm following this example: https://github.com/cfaddict/spring-boot-intro
Any ideas?