spring-form:options tag with enum

Question

I\'m having troubles displaying a dropdown list with the proper values. I\'m using the , and

Answer 1

You do not even need to use items attribute if you are using <spring-form:options> tag.
The options tag:
Renders a list of HTML 'option' tags. Sets 'selected' as appropriate based on bound value.
References Spring form tld. So for your need I guess falling back to JSTL core with <spring-form:option/> will suffice.

Answer 2

If you created a spring controller and you want to pass an enum to your jsp page, you can do it like this:

Enum example:

public enum Coin {

    HEADS("Heads", "heads"),
    TAILS("Tails", "tails");

    private final String fullName;
    private final String shortName;

    private Coin(String fullName, String shortName) {
        this.fullName = fullName;
        this.shortName = shortName;
    }

    public String getFullName() {
        return fullName;
    }

    public String getShortName() {
        return shortName;
    }

}

Passing this enum to your model:

model.addObject("coins", Coin.values());

Using it in your jsp page with form:

<form:select path="selection">
    <form:options items="${coins}" itemValue="shortName" itemLabel="fullName" />
</form:select>

Answer 3

It looks like the solution to this problem was that I was using the attribute "path" in the <spring-form:options> tag. It should have been "items", not "path".

the corrected JSP fragment:

<spring-form:select path="selectOptions">
    <spring-form:option value="" label="*** Select Option ***" />
    <spring-form:options items="${availableOptions}" />
</spring-form:select>