List as form backing object using Spring 3 MVC, correct syntax?

Question

I want to do something like this, where Foo is a class with one String field name, and getter/setter:

Answer 1

Although the above answer works, here's an alternate that does not require you to create a wrapper class/ form class.

Model And Controller

public class Foo {
    private String name;
    private List fooList; //**must create this list, also getter and setter**
    public Foo() {
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    public List getFooList() {
        return fooList;
    }

    public void setFooList(String fooList) {
        this.fooList = fooList;
    }

}

@Controller("/")
public class FooController{

    //returns the ModelAttribute fooListWrapper with the view fooForm
    @RequestMapping(value = "/FOO", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String getFooList(Model model) {
        List fooList = service.getFooList();

        model.addAttribute("fooList", fooList);

        return "list_foo"; //name of the view
    }

    @RequestMapping(value = "/FOO", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public String postFooList(@ModelAttribute("foo")Foo foo, Model model) {
        List list = foo.getFooList(); // **This is your desired object. 
        //If you debug this code, you can easily find this is the list of  
        //all the foo objects that you wanted, provided you pass them properly. 
        //Check the jsp file to see one of the ways of passing such a list of objects**
        //Rest of the code
    }

}

JSP View

    
           
           
    


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