Add form tag example

spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/controller/PersonController.java

@@ -21,7 +21,28 @@ import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
 public class PersonController {
 
 	@RequestMapping(value = "/person", method = RequestMethod.GET)
-	public ModelAndView initForm(final Model model) {
+	public ModelAndView showForm(final Model model) {
+
+		initData(model);
+		return new ModelAndView("personForm", "person", new Person());
+	}
+
+	@RequestMapping(value = "/addPerson", method = RequestMethod.POST)
+	public String submit(@Valid @ModelAttribute("person") final Person person, final BindingResult result,
+			final ModelMap modelMap, final Model model) {
+
+		if (result.hasErrors()) {
+
+			initData(model);
+			return "personForm";
+		}
+
+		modelMap.addAttribute("person", person);
+
+		return "personResume";
+	}
+
+	private void initData(final Model model) {
 
 		final List<String> favouriteLanguage = new ArrayList<String>();
 		favouriteLanguage.add("Java");
@@ -52,35 +73,5 @@ public class PersonController {
 		books.add("Nineteen Eighty-Four");
 		books.add("The Lord of the Rings");
 		model.addAttribute("books", books);
-
-		return new ModelAndView("personForm", "person", new Person());
 	}
-
-	@RequestMapping(value = "/addPerson", method = RequestMethod.POST)
-	public String submit(@Valid @ModelAttribute("person") final Person person, final BindingResult result,
-			final ModelMap model) {
-
-		if (result.hasErrors()) {
-			return "error";
-		}
-
-		model.addAttribute("person", person);
-
-		return "personResume";
-	}
-	//
-	// protected Map<String, List<String>> referenceData(final
-	// HttpServletRequest request) throws Exception {
-	//
-	// final Map<String, List<String>> referenceData = new HashMap<>();
-	//
-	// final List<String> favouriteLanguageList = new ArrayList<String>();
-	// favouriteLanguageList.add("Java");
-	// favouriteLanguageList.add("C++");
-	// favouriteLanguageList.add("Perl");
-	// referenceData.put("favouriteLanguageList", favouriteLanguageList);
-	//
-	// return referenceData;
-	//
-	// }
 }

spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/form/Person.java

@@ -2,10 +2,17 @@ package org.baeldung.spring.form;
 
 import java.util.List;
 
+import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotEmpty;
+import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
+
 public class Person {
 
 	private long id;
+
+	@NotEmpty
 	private String name;
+
+	@NotEmpty
 	private String password;
 	private String sex;
 	private String country;
@@ -16,6 +23,7 @@ public class Person {
 	private List<String> favouriteLanguage;
 	private List<String> fruit;
 	private String notes;
+	private MultipartFile file;
 
 	public Person() {
 		super();
@@ -117,4 +125,12 @@ public class Person {
 		this.book = book;
 	}
 
+	public MultipartFile getFile() {
+		return file;
+	}
+
+	public void setFile(final MultipartFile file) {
+		this.file = file;
+	}
+
 }

spring-mvc-xml/src/main/resources/messages.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+NotEmpty.person.name = Name is required!
+NotEmpty.person.password = Password is required!

spring-mvc-xml/src/main/resources/webMvcConfig.xml

@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
 >
 
     <mvc:annotation-driven/>
+    
     <context:component-scan base-package="org.baeldung.spring.controller"/>
+    
     <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
         <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/"/>
         <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
@@ -19,4 +21,15 @@
 
     <mvc:view-controller path="/sample.html" view-name="sample"/>
 
+	<bean class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource" id="messageSource">
+		<property name="basename" value="messages" />
+	</bean>
+	
+	<!-- <bean id="multipartResolver"
+		class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver" /> -->
+		
+	<bean id="multipartResolver"
+        class="org.springframework.web.multipart.support.StandardServletMultipartResolver">
+	</bean>
+
 </beans>

spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personForm.jsp

@@ -5,18 +5,33 @@
 		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 		<title>Form Example - Register a Person</title>
 	</head>
+	
+	<style>
+	
+		.error {
+			color: #ff0000;
+		}
+		
+	</style>
+	
 	<body>
+	
 		<h3>Welcome, Enter The Person Details</h3>
 	
-	<form:form method="POST" action="/spring-mvc-xml/addPerson" modelAttribute="person">
+		<form:form method="POST" action="/spring-mvc-xml/addPerson" modelAttribute="person" enctype="multipart/form-data">
+			
+			<form:errors path="*" cssClass="error"/>
+			
 			<table>
 				<tr>
 					<td><form:label path="name">Name</form:label></td>
 					<td><form:input path="name" /></td>
+					<td><form:errors path="name" cssClass="error" /></td>
 				</tr>
 				<tr>
 					<td><form:label path="password">Password</form:label></td>
 					<td><form:password path="password" /></td>
+					<td><form:errors path="password" cssClass="error" /></td>
 				</tr>
 				<tr>
 				    <td><form:label path="sex">Sex</form:label></td>
@@ -74,13 +89,19 @@
 					<td><form:label path="notes">Notes</form:label></td>
 					<td><form:textarea path="notes" rows="3" cols="20"/></td>
 				</tr>
+				<tr>
+					<td><form:label path="file">Select a file to upload</form:label></td>
+					<td><input type="file" name="file" /></td>
+				</tr>
 				<tr>
 					<td><form:hidden path="id" value="12345"/></td>
 				</tr>
 				<tr>
 					<td><input type="submit" value="Submit" /></td>
 				</tr>
+				
 			</table>
+			
 		</form:form>
 	
 	</body>

spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personResume.jsp

@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@
 			<td>Notes :</td>
 			<td>${person.notes}</td>
 		</tr>
+		<tr>
+			<td>File :</td>
+			<td>${person.file.originalFilename}</td>
+		</tr>
 	</table>
 </body>
 </html>

spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml

@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
         <servlet-name>mvc</servlet-name>
         <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
         <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
+        <multipart-config>
+        	<location>C:/Users/ivan/Desktop/tmp</location>
+    	</multipart-config>
     </servlet>
     <servlet-mapping>
         <servlet-name>mvc</servlet-name>