Spring MVC HTML checkbox not checked when form returns from onSubmit

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I'm using the SimpleFormController and have checkboxes in the view. When the form is submitted the values of the checkboxes are correctly binded to the bean. But when the form (jsp view) returns from the onSubmit method the checkboxes are not checked. I've tried doing the following things : -

<input name="location" description="xyz" type="checkbox" id="location-filter-1" style="float:left" value="1"/>
<input name="location" description="xyz" type="checkbox" id="location-filter-1" style="float:left" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="_location" value="visible"/>
<springbind:bind path="location"> <input name="location" description="chennai" type="checkbox" id="location-filter-1" style="float:left" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="_location" value="visible"/> </springbind:bind>

I've had no luck in getting thoses checkboxes checked. Could any one suggest a work around for this. In the bean, an Integer array is used to hold the values for checked checkboxes :- private Integer[] location;

The checkboxes are currently like this:- the checkboxes are arranged like this

<ul>
    <li class="x">
     <span>text</span>
     <input type="checkbox" value="1" id="location-1" name="location"/>
    </li>
    <li><span>text</span>
     <input type="checkbox" value="2" id="location-2" name="location"/>
     </li>
     <li>...</li>
      ..
</ul>

Japan Trivedi · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-12 07:08:53Z

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You should try using form tag library of spring framework to bind the values of your checkboxes.

<form:checkboxes items="" path=""/>

In items attribute pass the list that holds the checkbox values and in path use location.

Hope this helps you. Cheers.

answered Jun 12, 2012 at 7:08

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pranky64 Over a year ago

if i use form:checkboxes then how do i arrange them on the page? in certain divs/spans?

Japan Trivedi Over a year ago

If you need to do so then you should use <c:forEach /> to loop the items and in the loop you can create individual <form:checkbox /> in whatever div/span you need to put it in.

pranky64 Over a year ago

currently to get the checkbox list i use a scriptlet :P like <%=getLocationCheckboxes()%>, can i use <form:checkbox..> inplace of <input type="checkbox"..> there (in the function getLocationCheckboxList()?

Japan Trivedi Over a year ago

No. Its a bad thing to use scriptlet in the jsp. You should call this method right from your controller and then put this list in the modelmap object and then on the jsp render the list of checkboxes using the list passed.

pranky64 Over a year ago

yeah probably i should do that :( thnks

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