Insert jsp form to database using spring boot - spring

Question

I'm a beginner in spring boot I start with creating a contact form that send data to data base. this is the form:
<form:form method="POST" id="contactform" modelAttribute="message">
<div class="form">
<div class="six columns noleftmargin">
<label name="name">Name</label>
<form:input path="name" type="text" class="smoothborder" placeholder="Your name *"/>
</div>
<div class="six columns">
<label name="email">E-mail address</label>
<form:input path="email" type="text" class="smoothborder" placeholder="Your e-mail address *"/>
</div>
<label name="comment">Message</label>
<form:textarea path="comment" class="smoothborder ctextarea" rows="14" placeholder="Message, feedback, comments *"></form:textarea>
<input type="submit" id="submit" class="readmore" value="Submit"/>
</div>
</form:form>
And this is my conact controller:
#Autowired
private MessageRepository messageRepository ;
#RequestMapping(value= "/newmessage", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String newMessage(ModelMap model) {
Message message = new Message();
model.addAttribute("message", message);
return ("/contact");
}
#RequestMapping(value="/newmessage",method=RequestMethod.POST)
public String saveMessage( Message message, BindingResult result, ModelMap model)
{
if (result.hasErrors()) {
return "/contact";
}
messageRepository.save(message);
model.addAttribute("success", "Message " + message.getName() + " "+ message.getEmail() + " "+ message.getComment()+ " registered successfully");
//return "success";
return "/homepage";
Folder Structure

Answer 1

You need to set the action of the form. If you want to hit /newmessage while submitting form, then you need to change as following :
<form:form method="POST" id="contactform" action="/newmessage" modelAttribute="message">
<!-- The elements of the form -->
</form:form>
Also, you need to add the modelAttribute to your controller method. And you should return only the name of the jsp page. If your page name is homepage.jsp then you should only return homepage from your controller method. Of course, homepage.jsp file needs to be in WEB-INF folder.
#RequestMapping(value="/newmessage",method=RequestMethod.POST)
public String saveMessage(#ModelAttribute("message") Message message, BindingResult result, ModelMap model) {
// Rest of the code
return "homepage";
}