Thymeleaf form array with default values - spring

Question

I'm using Spring+Thymeleaf to see and modify the users in a database. I would like to set the input fields to the actual values of an original user but I've tried with different styles and it doesn't work.
With the present configuration I can update information of users and see the id of original user (it's not in a input field) but I can't show the actual configuration in input field as default.
CONTROLLER:
#GetMapping(value = {"/", ""})
public String subusersPage(HttpSession session, Model model) {
String idUser = BaseController.getLoggedUser(session);
UserDTO userDTO = userService.getUserById(idUser);
model.addAttribute("subusersDTO", userService.getSubusersDTO(userDTO.getSubusers()));
model.addAttribute("populations", userDTO.getPopulations());
model.addAttribute("configurations", userDTO.getConfigurations());
model.addAttribute("attributes", userDTO.getAttributes());
model.addAttribute("subuserDTO", new SubuserDTO());
return "subusers";
}
HTML:
<th:block th:each="subuserDTO_original : ${subusersDTO}">
<hr>
<form action="#" th:action="#{/subusers/__${subuserDTO_original.id}__}" th:object="${subuserDTO}" method="post">
<div>
<p th:text="${'Id: ' + subuserDTO_original.id}"></p>
<p>Name: <input type="text" th:field="*{name}" th:name="name" th:value="${subuserDTO_original.name}"/></p>
<p>Population: <input type="text" th:field="*{population}" th:name="population" th:value="${subuserDTO_original.population}"/></p>
<p>Configuration: <input type="text" th:field="*{configuration}" th:name="configuration" th:value="${subuserDTO_original.configuration}"/></p>
<p>Attributes: <input type="text" th:field="*{attributes}" th:name="attributes" th:value="${subuserDTO_original.attributes}"/></p>
<p>
<button type="submit" th:name="action" th:value="update">Update</button>
<button type="submit" th:name="action" th:value="delete">Delete</button>
<button type="reset" th:name="action" th:value="clear">Clear</button>
</p>
</div>
</form>
<form action="#" th:action="#{/subusers/__${subuserDTO_original.id}__}" method="get">
<button type="submit">Default</button>
</form>
</th:block>
Any help will be very appreciated, thank you!

Answer 1

If you want to edit an existing user, then your th:object (which is ${subuserDTO} in this case) needs to be populated with the values of the original user. This is because when you use the attribute th:field="*{name}", it actually overwrites the name, id, and value of the html tag (which is why th:value="${subuserDTO_original.name}" isn't working.
Two other options you could do:
You could also set name="name" and use th:value instead.
Or another option, you could use ${subuserDTO_original} as your th:object.