Intercept the view/response in Spring MVC 3

Question

I am new to Spring MVC 3 and I understand the basic concepts. I am able to do simple things like create controllers and services and views. However, I haven\'t made a foray

Answer 1

The class you're probably looking for is org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerInterceptor You can implement the postHandle method on that interface and, as the signature implies, have access to both the request and the response, as well as the map of model objects that your controller created. (and the controller itself, that's what the Object handler parameter is.)

You 'turn them on' by adding them to the handler mapping in your dispatcher servlet.

Incidentally, binding is actually done inside the HandlerAdapter that locates Controller methods and invokes them, it's not an interceptor.

Edit: To answer your edit, yes this is where you have a chance to grab the model object and work with it more, after the controller is done, but before it goes to JSP rendering. So you could do something like add myCustomScript to the ModelMap and toss ${myCustomScript} in the of your jsp, get a backing object out of the ModelMap and examine it, etc etc.