Map javascript array to controller object

[CGarces]

I'm pasing a JavaScipt array by POST with this code

var rowList = .. some code to fill the array;
jQuery.post("?save", {rows: rowList },function(data){});

It generate the following post info
rows%5B0%5D%5Bid%5D=E202&rows%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D=Tr ue&rows%5B1%5D%5Bid%5D=E204&rows%5B1%5D%5Bvalue%5D =True

The representation on Firefox findbugs...

rows[0][id] E202
rows[0][value] True
rows[1][id] E204
rows[1][value] True

In order to get it on the controller, I have the one class with getters and setters

    public class MyClass {
    	private String id;
    	private String value;
...
}

And inside the controller

    @RequestMapping(value = "/{id}", params = "save", method = RequestMethod.POST, produces = "text/html")
    public String save(@PathVariable("id") Long id,
    		@RequestParam(value="rows[]", required=false) MyClass[] rowList, 
    		HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest){

But rowList is null....

What is the correctly way of handle this javascript arrays?

[sbirnie]

I don't know if this will be any help since it's not quite the same as what you're doing, but this is working for me.

In my case I'm doing it as an ajax call, and I'm posting the array (and nothing else) using JSON.stringify(). Not sure how you would modify this if you're passing additional fields.

client side JavaScript:

var serverData = [];
// ... populate serverData
$.ajax({
	  type: 'POST',
	  url: sPostUrl,
	  data: JSON.stringify(serverData),
	  success: function(..) {
		  ...
	  },
	  error: function(...) {
		  ...
	  },    			
	  contentType: "application/json"

server side Java:

@RequestMapping(value = "yourUrlHere", method = RequestMethod.POST)
@ResponseBody
public String yourMethodName(HttpSession session, @RequestBody PostedClass[] postedItems) {
	  ...
}

Also, I don't like using "YourClass[]". I thought I should be able to do it as a List<PostedClass>, but I was getting errors doing it that way.

Edit:
I forgot - I believe to be able to handle the JSON as input I had to add a AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter to my servlet config. The default Spring 3.1 one did not include org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJac ksonHttpMessageConverter. The first 5 message converters are what Spring uses by default (see here). I had to add the MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter.

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
	<property name="order" value="1" />
	<property name="messageConverters">
		<list>
			<!-- Message converters -->
			<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter"/>
			<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.FormHttpMessageConverter"/>
			<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter" />
			<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.SourceHttpMessageConverter"/>
			<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.BufferedImageHttpMessageConverter"/>
			<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter" />
		</list>
	</property>
</bean>

[CGarces]

I'm very confused, posting the data as json also fails

Client side:

jQuery.ajax(
{
    url: "?save",
    type: "POST",
    success: alert("ok"),
    data:  JSON.stringify({rows: rowList }),
    contentType: "application/json"
});

I see de json data on findbugs and looks correct.
{"rows":[{"id":"E202","value":"True"},{"id":"E204","value": "True"}]}

Server side:

    @RequestMapping(value = "/{id}", params = "save", method = RequestMethod.POST, produces = "text/html")
    public String save(@PathVariable("id") Long id,
    		@RequestBody(required=false) MyClass[] rows,
    		HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest){

The code more or less the same as
http://blog.springsource.com/2010/01...in-spring-3-0/

But still not working, now I obtain 400 Bad Request, but without any error in the stacktrace.

[CGarces]

After change the log4j to debug I can see the error

My controller class was:

public class MyController {
      public class MyClass {
    	private String id;
    	private String value;
    	}
...
    @RequestMapping(value = "/{id}", params = "save", method = RequestMethod.POST, produces = "text/html")
    public String save(@PathVariable("id") Long id,
    		@RequestBody(required=false) MyClass[] rows,
    		HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest){

Using subclass it's a bad idea, I have moved MyClass to a separate file and now works ok.