Having Trouble Following View Mapping in Petstore Sample App

[JohnOlmstead]

Ladies and Gentlemen;

I am trying to model a starter Spring app off of the petstore sample app and I getting confused with the view mapping. Specifically discussing the following form bean definition :

<bean id="findOwnersForm" class="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.web.F indOwnersForm">
<property name="formView"><value>findOwnersForm</value></property>
<property name="selectView"><value>selectOwnerView</value></property>
<property name="successView"><value>ownerRedirect</value></property>
<property name="clinic"><ref bean="clinic"/></property>
</bean>

I do not see where the "ownerRedirect" view is resolved to a jsp. The "findOwnersForm" is resolved in the urlMapping bean as follows:

<bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.Sim pleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="mappings">
<props>
<prop key="/welcome.htm">clinicController</prop>
<prop key="/vets.htm">clinicController</prop>
<prop key="/owner.htm">clinicController</prop>
<prop key="/findOwners.htm">findOwnersForm</prop>
<prop key="/editOwner.htm">editOwnerForm</prop>
<prop key="/addOwner.htm">addOwnerForm</prop>
<prop key="/addVisit.htm">addVisitForm</prop>
<prop key="/addPet.htm">addPetForm</prop>
<prop key="/editPet.htm">editPetForm</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>

However, there is no mapping for the ownerRedirect, or its cousin ownerView. The support document states :

"ownerView displays a owner's data and a list of the owner's pets and their data (see petclinic.web.ClinicController).
ownerRedirect redirects to ownerView."

I am clearly missing something here. Thank you in advance for your patience and your response.

John Olmstead
Meyertool Company
Cincinnati Ohio
jolmstead2k@yahoo.com

[m_kehle]

...depends on your resolver, when u have something like this in your petstore-servlet.xml:

<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBas edViewResolver">
<property name="prefix"><value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value></property>
<property name="suffix"><value>.jsp</value></property>
</bean>

...then "ownerRedirect" is mapped to /WEB-INF/jsp/ownerRedirect.jsp.

See spring-reference chapter 12.5.

Hope that helps,
markus

[JohnOlmstead]

I missed the reference to the views.properties file in the petclinic-servlet.xml. Thanks Folks!