How to populate entity object values on Spring Form using jquery/ajax? - ajax

Question

I have the Spring form
<form:form method="POST" action="/HelloWeb/addStudent" id="myForm">
<table>
<tr>
<td><form:label path="name">Name</form:label></td>
<td><form:input path="name" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><form:label path="age">Age</form:label></td>
<td><form:input path="age" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><form:label path="id">id</form:label></td>
<td><form:input path="id" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form:form>
i can submit this form to controller using
$.post('{controller path}', $('#myForm').serialize());
now i want to populate entity object using jquery/Ajax on the this form and object will be returned from controller.
kindly guide me?
here is controller that call new page and populate object data on form...
#RequestMapping(value = "/addStudent", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public ModelAndView addStudent(#ModelAttribute("SpringWeb")Student student, ModelMap model)
{
Student stud =new Student();
//here will be my code to use student object....
return new ModelAndView("ViewStudent", "SpringWeb",stud);
}
but this method load new page ...instead of calling new i want do this logic on same page

Answer 1

The form: tags are interpreted on the server side, and generate regular HTML tags on the client side. Since jQuery is only running on the client side, it won't be able to find things using the form: tags. Try running the page and viewing the HTML source, then base your jQuery selectors on what you see there.