Spring boot Mongodb Creating a nested document - spring

Question

can any one please tell me what I am missing ?
I am trying to create a Mongo collection using spring boot mongodb.
I want to create something like this
{
"_id":"123456"
"entity_name":"some name"
"entity_desc":"some description"
"events":[
{"title":"some title", "description":"some description"},
{"title":"title2", "description":"description2" }
]
}
but I am getting this
{
"_id":"123456"
"entity_name":"some name"
"entity_desc":"some description"
"events":[ ]
}
my Domain classes are
#Document
public class Entity {
#Id
private BigInteger id;
private String name, description;
private List<Event> events=new ArrayList<Event>();
/* GETTERS AND SETTERS */
}
public class Event {
private String titles;
private String descriptions;
/* GETTERS AND SETTERS */
}
and my repository is
public interface MyRepository extends MongoRepository<Entity, String>{
}
controller is
#Controller
public class RootController {
#Autowired
private MyRepository mr;
/* GET and other methods */
#RequestMapping(value="/", method=RequestMethod.POST)
public String helloPost(#ModelAttribute Entity entity){
mr.save(entity);
return "success";
}
}
and my jsp form is
<form:form modelAttribute="entity" role="form">
<div class="form-group">
Name <input type="text" id="name" name="name" /><br />
</div>
<div class="form-group">
Description <input type="text" id="description" name="description" /><br />
</div>
<div class="form-group">
event <input type="text" id="event" name="event" /><br />
</div>
<div class="form-group" >
title <input type="text" id="title" name="title" /><br />
</div>
<div class="form-group" >
description <input type="text" id="description" name="description" /><br />
</div>
<div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</div>
</form:form>

Answer 1

Shouldn't it be something like below?
public class Event {
private String title;
private String description;
/* GETTERS AND SETTERS */
}
EDIT : Thanks for the jsp, clearly the way you are passing the values are not picked for child. Spring MVC doesn't support ONGL so it won't pick up child object with dot notation. But there are complex mechanism by setting path. Please look at this answer where it did pass child object list through form parameter. So it can be good starting point.