How do I populate a drop down with a list using thymeleaf and spring

Question

I need to populate a drop down with all the values within a list of strings.

Controller Class

@RequestMapping(value = \"/generateIds\", method = Requ         


        

Answer 1

I have implemented a similar where i need to populate the dropdown from the database. For that I retrieved the data from the controller as below

@GetMapping("/addexpense")
public String addExpense(Expense expense,Model model){
    model.addAttribute("categories",categoryRepo.findAll());
    return "addExpense";
}

Then in the thymeleaf I have used the below code.

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