Can not populate drop down list using hibernate query in spring mvc - spring

Question

Here is my controller. In this I am using the reference data to send the List to my JSP page. Read the list into countryList which contains list of all country names populated using hibernate query
#SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public class customerController extends SimpleFormController {
public customerController() {
setCommandClass(customer.class);
setCommandName("customer");
}
private customerDAO customerDAO;
public void setcustomerDAO(customerDAO customerDAO) {
this.customerDAO = customerDAO;
}
#Override
protected ModelAndView onSubmit(Object command) throws Exception {
customer customer = (customer) command;
customerDAO.savecustomer(customer);
return new ModelAndView("customerSuccess");
}
#Override
protected Map referenceData(HttpServletRequest request) throws Exception {
Map referenceData = new HashMap();
List countryList = customerDAO.listCountries();
referenceData.put("country", countryList);
return referenceData;
}
public ModelAndView redirect(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
ModelMap modelMap = new ModelMap();
return new ModelAndView("customer", modelMap);
}
}
Here is my DAO implementation:
public class customerDAOImpl implements customerDAO {
private HibernateTemplate hibernateTemplate;
public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
this.hibernateTemplate = new HibernateTemplate(sessionFactory);
}
#Override
public void savecustomer(customer customer) {
hibernateTemplate.saveOrUpdate(customer);
}
#Override
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public List<customer> listcustomer() {
return hibernateTemplate.find("from customer");
}
#Override
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public List<countries> listCountries() {
return hibernateTemplate.find("from customer.countries");
}
}
Here is my JSP code:
<%# taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" %>
<%# taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %>
<%# taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
<form:form commandName="customer" name="customer" method="post">
<tr>
<td align="right" class="para">Country:</td>
<td align="left"><span id="spryselect2">
<form:select path="country" id="country">
<form:options items="${country}" itemValue="country_id" itemLabel="name" />
</form:select>
<span class="selectRequiredMsg">Please select country.</span></span></td>
</tr>
But nothing is getting populated into the drop down.

Answer 1

Name the list of countries something representing multiple countries, like, say, "countries".
There's also a customer country property.