Spring MVC Checkbox Example

Last updated on May 17th, 2024

In this example, we create a form for user input, and the checkbox then shows user details through the Spring MVC form tag.

<form:checkbox path=" "/> 

This is provided by the Spring MVC form tag for the checkbox of this application.

check_box_tag_in_spring_mvc_form

In this example of the application, we will take multiple checkboxes are choose the multiple by the fill the form.

Development Process:
  1. Keep Eclipse IDE ready
  2. Project Structure
  3. Add the jar file
  4. Configure Spring DispacherServlet
  5. Add configuration to a file
  6. Create View Page
  7. Create Bean Class
  8. Create Controller Class
  9. Run the App

1. Keep Eclipse IDE ready
2. Project Structure

spring_mvc_check_box_example

 3. Add the jar file   

common-logging-<version>.jar
jstl-<version>.jar
spring-aop-<version>.jar
spring-context-<version>.jar
spring-core-<version>.jar
spring-expression-<version>.jar
spring-web-<version>.jar
spring-webmvc-<version>.jar

4. Create a View Page
home.jsp:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<body>
<a href="http://localhost:8080/spring_mvc_check_boxes_demo/user/showForm">Click For User Form</a>
</body>
</html>

user-form.jsp:

<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>User Registration Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form:form action="processForm" modelAttribute="user">
First name: <form:input path="firstName" />
<br>
<br>
Last name: <form:input path="lastName" />
<br>
<br>
Technologies:<br>
<form:checkbox path="technologies" value="Java"/>Java
<form:checkbox path="technologies" value="Python"/>Python
<form:checkbox path="technologies" value=".NET"/>.NET
<form:checkbox path="technologies" value="PHP"/>PHP
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form:form>
</body>
</html>

→ <form:checkbox path=”technologies”/>“technologies” is  a bean class property name.
user-detail.jsp:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>  
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>User Detail</title>
</head>
<body>User Detail: ${user.firstName} ${user.lastName}<br>
Technologies:
<ul>
<c:forEach var="temp" items="${user.technologies}">
<li>${temp}</li>
</c:forEach>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

5. Configure Spring DispacherServlet 
web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="4.0">
<display-name>spring-mvc-check-boxes-demo</display-name>
<absolute-ordering />
<!-- Spring MVC Configs -->
<!--  Configure Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
!-- Set up URL mapping for Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet of this check boxes demo application -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

→ This file is created in the “WEB-INF” directory in the application i.e., spring_mvc_check_boxes_demo

6. Add configuration to a file
dispatcher-servlet.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">


<!-- Add support for component scanning -->
<context:component-scan base-package="com.poc" />
<!-- Add support for conversion, formatting and validation support -->
<mvc:annotation-driven/>

<!-- Define Spring MVC view resolver -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
</beans>

7. Create Bean Class
User.java:

package com.poc.controller.bean;

public class User {
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private String [] technologies;

public User() {

}

public String getFirstName() {

return firstName;

}

public void setFirstName(String firstName) {

this.firstName = firstName;

}

public String getLastName() {

return lastName;

}

public void setLastName(String lastName) {

this.lastName = lastName;

}


public String [] getTechnologies() {

return technologies;

}

public void setTechnologies(String [] technologies) {

this.technologies = technologies;
     }
}

8. Create Controller Class
HomeController.java:
 

package com.poc.controller;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

@Controller
public class HomeController {

@RequestMapping("/")
public String showPage() {
return "home";
   }
}

UserController.java:

package com.poc.controller;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import com.poc.controller.bean.User;

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/user")
public class UserController{


@RequestMapping("/showForm")
public String showForm(Model theModel) {

// create a User object
User user=new User();

theModel.addAttribute("user",user);

return "user-form";
}

@RequestMapping("/processForm")
public String processForm(@ModelAttribute("user") User user) {
return "user-detail";
       }
}

9. Run the App

check_box_tag_in_spring_mvc_form
check_box_tag_in_spring_mvc_form
check_box_tag_in_spring_mvc_form

Conclusion:
This example is explained What is a checkbox in the Spring MVC form tag library? How to use <form:checkbox /> tag? How to use a for loop in the JSP?

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