Dynamically binding lists with Spring's form tag

Question

I have a command object FaxForm and it holds a list of FaxStatus objects inside a faxStatusList property.

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Answer 1

Spring form tags has a checkboxes tag. You can use it as follows to do the binding automatically:

<form:checkboxes items="${faxStatusList}" path="faxStatusList" itemLabel="name" itemValue="id" delimiter="<br/>" onclick="yourOnClickMethodIfYouNeed(this);"/>

The above snippet will display a list of checkbox items delimited with the br tag. Any changes made to the state of the checkboxes will be reflected appropriately in your FaxForm. faxStatusList object.