SimpleFormController - command object has no data

[vaishu74]

I am using spring's SimpleFormController and html form tags in the view html.
I don't get any data in command object of the onsubmit method of my controller.

If I try to do request.getParameter(anyFormfieldname) I see that the values are there but don't know why the commad object does not have this data ? Am I missing something ?

here's my configuration -

<entry key="/**/MyTest.do">
<ref local="MyController"/>
</entry>

<bean id="MyController" class="com.MyController">
<property name="dataService">
<ref bean="myDataService"/></property>
<property name= "commandClass">
<value>com.myFormBean</value></property>
<property name="commandName" value="myForm"/>
<property name="successView"><value>MyViewInfo</value></property>
</bean>

Here's the view --

<form id="myForm" name="myForm" action="MyTest.do" method="post">
FirstName :<input type="text" name="myForm.firstName" value="AAA"/>
LastName :<input type="text" name="myForm.lastName" value="BBB"/>
<input type="submit" name="myForm.submitButton" id="myForm.submitButton" value="submit" />
</form>

my controller overrides the onSubmit method -

public class TestController extends SimpleFormController {
protected ModelAndView onSubmit(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response,
Object commandObject, BindException exception) {
..
}
}

Thanks.

[noon]

You need to bind the field with the domain object properties. You'll need to do this by adding the Spring form tags to your jsp-page. See documentation and examples.

[vaishu74]

Thanks for you reply.
I am not using JSPs, I am using HTML and velocity. Is there a way I can get it working with html form tags ?

[noon]

Don't know about velocity except what it's for...