Spring MVC Pages HTTP Status 400 and Incorrect URL's

Question

I am experiencing some issues with the application. I have a registration form which is post to another page from the controller this page displays the results of the query fro

Answer 1

1) change the input type to button instead of submit and add an onclick event that will call your submitPage function passing in the action to call

2) change your submitPage function to set the action based on which button was clicked

function submitPage(action){   
    document.getElementById("citizenRegistration").action = action;
    document.getElementById("citizenRegistration").method = "POST";
    document.getElementById("citizenRegistration").submit();
}

3) have 2 controller methods, one mapped to save/update, the other mapped to list

@RequestMapping(value="citizen_list.htm", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public ModelAndView getCitizenList(@Valid @ModelAttribute Citizens citizen, BindingResult result, ModelMap m, Model model, @RequestParam(value="user_request") String user_request) throws Exception {

   try{
        logger.debug("about to preform query");
        //citizenManager.getListOfCitizens(citizen);
        if(citizenManager.getListOfCitizens(citizen).isEmpty()){
             model.addAttribute("icon","ui-icon ui-icon-circle-close");
             model.addAttribute("results","Notice: Query Caused No Records To Be Retrived!");                            
        }else{
             model.addAttribute("citizens",citizenManager.getListOfCitizens(citizen));
             return new ModelAndView("citizenList"); 
        } 
    }catch(Exception e){
        logger.error("Exception in CitizenRegistrationController - ModelAndView loadPage "+e);
        //request.setAttribute("error",e.getMessage());
         return new ModelAndView("citizen_registration");
    }
}

@RequestMapping(value="citizen_registration.htm", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public ModelAndView handleRequest(@Valid @ModelAttribute Citizens citizen,  BindingResult result, ModelMap m, Model model, @RequestParam(value="user_request") String user_request) throws Exception {

    try{
         logger.debug("In Http method for CitizenRegistrationController - Punishment Registration");
         logger.debug("User Request Is " + user_request);

         if(result.hasErrors()){
            logger.debug("Has Errors");
            return new ModelAndView("citizen_registration");
         }else{
             //check if its a save of an update
             if(user_request.equals("Save")){
                 citizenManager.RegisterCitizen(citizen);   
                 model.addAttribute("icon","ui-icon ui-icon-circle-check");
                 model.addAttribute("results","Record Was Saved");
                 return new ModelAndView("citizen_registration");
             } else if (user_request.equals("Update")){
                 logger.info("About to do update");
                 citizenManager.UpdateCitizen(citizen);
                 return new ModelAndView("citizen_registration");                        
             }                  
         }

        logger.debug("Has No Errors");     
        return new ModelAndView("citizen_registration");

    }catch(Exception e){
        logger.error("Exception in CitizenRegistrationController - ModelAndView loadPage "+e);
        //request.setAttribute("error",e.getMessage());
         return new ModelAndView("citizen_registration");
    }
}