Spring MVC - passing variables from one page to anther

Question

I need help. I am working on a project where I have multiple pages and multiple forms; each page has one form. I just need to be able to pass values from one jsp to another.

Answer 1

You could also use session attributes, either manually, such as:

public ModelAndView handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request){
      request.getSession().getAttribute("nameOfAttribute");
}

Apologies for writing this as an annotated controller, I do not recall if xml config controllers offer this feature...

There is no Spring code involved for that. The other option is to use the @SessionAttribute annotation on your controller:

@Controller 
@SessionAttributes("nameOfAttribute")
public class MyController{
//your session attribute can be accessed in controller methods using @ModelAttribute
public ModelAndView handleRequest(@ModelAttribute("nameOfAttribute")){
      session.getAttribute("nameOfAttribute");
}

Note

You will need to clear the session attribute when you are done with it:

request.getSession().setAttribute("nameOfAttribute", null);