Spring MVC cannot find method in controller when using POST request

Question

I am new to spring and I am facing the following issue:

Edited Description:

I was able to make a POST call by making a new controller and ModelAndView method but now I am facing one more problem of data not getting passed from JSP to controller. My JSP code is:

form:form method="POST" action="UserOperation"
        modelAttribute="DebitModel">
        <h3>Debit</h3>

                    <c:if test="${!empty listAccounts}">
                        <select name="item" id="account_dropdown"
                            onchange="changeAccountDetails(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)">
                            <c:forEach items="${listAccounts}" var="account">
                                <option
                                    value="${account.accID},${account.acctype},${account.balance}">AccID:
                                    ${account.accID} Balance: ${account.balance}</option>
                            </c:forEach>
                        </select>
                        <br>
                        <br>
                        <label ><b>Account ID: </b></label>
                        <label id="accIdText" path="accID">${listAccounts[0].accID}</label>
                        <label><b>Account Type: </b></label>
                        <label id="accTypeText" path="acctype">${listAccounts[0].acctype}</label>
                        <label><b>Balance: </b></label>
                        <label id="accBalText" path="balance">${listAccounts[0].balance}</label>
                    </c:if>
                    <br> <br> Enter Amount<input type="text"
                        id="amount" width="80" path="amount"></input> <br> <br>
        <input type="submit" value="Debit"></input>
    </form:form>

There is a normal bean class named DebitModel. I tried to search and at many places for the data not getting passed and found solution as form:input mentioned but if I use this I get no Binding FoundException 'java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'DebitModel' available as request attribute ' even if <%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%> is present.

The Controller class Code:

@Controller
@RequestMapping(value = "/UserOperation")
public class DebitController {
    @Autowired
    private AccountService mAccountService;

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public ModelAndView registerCustomer(@ModelAttribute("DebitModel") DebitModel debitModel, BindingResult result,
            HttpServletRequest request) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, FileNotFoundException {

        ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView();
        System.out.println("data------------------------" + debitModel.toString());
        return modelAndView;
    }

}

This is just a suggestion can you try using (at) RequestBody instead of (at)ModelAttribute . stackoverflow.com/questions/21824012/… . @a007 — Albert Pinto

Chinthaka Dinadasa Chinthaka Dinadasa · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-05T08:13:45

show your controller class.

Seems you are using wrong pattern in path defining. Try with changing "/UserHomeDebit" to "UserHomeDebit" in both jsp and controller level.

This can check with the browser url when you are submitting the form. Lets think your application name is sampleapplication.then url will be

http://localhost:8080/sampleapplication

Then if you are use /UserHomeDebit as controller path mapping then url will change as following.

http://localhost:8080/UserHomeDebit

so its is wrong the correct one must be

http://localhost:8080/sampleapplication/UserHomeDebit

So just change the path as i said earlier and check

Spring MVC cannot find method in controller when using POST request

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