how to bind data to list in spring form

Question

I have a spring form with having backing object for it. The form is like this-

Answer 1

I dont know how to do it with spring form lib input but if you want to bind using simple html input than you can bind list like this

Simple.jsp

<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="spring"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>





    
        

        

            
First Name
            
Last Name
        
            

               

                

             
             
   
                

                

             
   

    
    
    
   
    

    
    
    

@controller :

@RequestMapping(value = "/save", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public ModelAndView save(@ModelAttribute("contactForm") ContactForm contactForm) {

        List contacts = contactForm.getContacts();

        if(null != contacts && contacts.size() > 0) {
            ContactController.contacts = contacts;
            for (Contact contact : contacts) {
                System.out.printf("%s \t %s \n", contact.getFirstname(), contact.getLastname());
            }
        }

        return new ModelAndView("show_contact", "contactForm", contactForm);
    }

ContactForm.java

import java.util.List;

public class ContactForm {

    private List contacts;

    public List getContacts() {
        return contacts;
    }

    public void setContacts(List contacts) {
        this.contacts = contacts;
    }
}

Contact.java

public class Contact {
    private String firstname;
    private String lastname;
    private String email;
    private String phone;

    public Contact() {

    }
 //getters and setters

}