I was looking for a way to do that, too, but didn't find any standard component or taglib. I think mainly because paging can become very specific since you need to retrieve your data with paging from the database already (if you are using Hibernate you can easily do that using the Criteria API). I came up with something like this:
public class Pager
{
private int page;
private int results;
private String sortOrder;
private String sortColumn;
// Getters and setters
}
@Controller
public class StuffController
{
@Autowired SomeEntityService someEntityService;
@RequestMapping("/test.html", method = Method.GET)
public void getStuffPaged(@RequestParam("id") String id, Pager pager, ModelMap mm)
{
mm.addAttribute("entities", someEntityService.get(id, pager));
}
}
If you now perform a request to http://domain/app/test.html?id=10&page=1&results=30&sortOrder=asc
you will get the pager Object in your request.