Output of a large table in Thymeleaf - java

The Spring-Boot App.
I want to output a table with data from the Book class to html.
Controller:
#GetMapping("/books")
public String showBooks(HttpServletRequest request, Model model) {
allBooks = bookService.getAll();
model.addAttribute("allBooks", allBooks);
return "books";
}
I use Thymeleaf.
Here is a snippet of html code:
<table border="1" style="width:250px">
<tr>
<th>No</th>
<th>Name</th>
</tr>
<tr th:each="allBooks, state : ${allBooks}">
<td th:utext="${state.count}">No</td>
<td th:text="${allBooks.name}">A Book'</td>
</tr>
</table>
There are more than 100 entries in the Book class.
How do I display them correctly so that they display 10 entries per page?
Thymeleaf is able to do this? Or do I need to use javaScript?

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Thymeleaf Get data from Html

I need get data from html to controller with press button also Html data as list.
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Company Name</th>
<th>Book Name</th>
<th>Author</th>
<th>Price</th>
<th>Order</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr th:each="Books: ${Books }">
<td th:text="${Books.CompanyName}" />
<td th:text="${Books.BookName}" />
<td th:text="${Books.AuthorName}" />
<td th:text="${Books.Price}" />
<td th:button class="Order-Button" type="button" >Order</button> </td>
Also this is my Controller
#Autowired
private BookRep bookRep;
#RequestMapping(value = "/BookOrder")
ModelAndView submitBookOrder(){
ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView("BookOrder");
mav.addObject("Books", bookRep.findAll());
return mav;
}
My expect to when user press take order button it will get row datas in controller
I wrote demo code for you. I think it will be useful for you. You can understand what you want by looking at the code
#GetMapping("/Books/{id}")
public String books(#PathVariable("id") Long id, Model model){
model.addAttribute("Books", bookService.getById(id));
return "book-list";
}
<-td> <-a th:href="#{/Books/{id}(id = ${book.id})}">
<-button type="submit" class="btn btn-info col-2" style="min-width: fit-content"> Books List<-/button>

Spring boot thymeleaf mapping is not working for me

I know theres a similar question in stackoverflow like mine. I tried every answer that i could from this question none of these worked: Thymeleaf using path variables to th:href
Can you help me what did i wrong in my thymeleaf page?
URL that i would like to reach: localhost:8081/students/{stu_id}
My GetMapping looks like:
#GetMapping("/students")
public ModelAndView viewStudentPage() {
List<Student_Dim> listStudent = studentService.getAllStudents();
return new ModelAndView("students","students", listStudent);
}
#GetMapping("/students/{id}")
private ModelAndView getInfo(#PathVariable("id") String stu_id){
Student_Dim student = studentService.getStudentById(stu_id);
return new ModelAndView("student","student",student);
}
Href that i use (students.html):
<tbody>
<tr th:each="student : ${students}">
<td th:text="${student.stu_fname}">First Name</td>
<td th:text="${student.stu_lname}">Last Name</td>
<td th:text="${student.dep_code}">Department Code</td>
<td th:text="${student.fac_code}">Faculty Code</td>
<td th:text="${student.loc_code}">Location Code</td>
<td th:text="${student.marriage_status}">Marriage Status</td>
<td th:text="${student.address}">Address</td>
<td>
Edit
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
You are using thymeleaf expression inside <a> tag. You have to use th:href instead of href.
<td>
<a th:href="#{/students/{id}(id=${student.stu_id})}">Edit</a>
</td>

Sending parameter inThymleaf using link urls #

I have the following form in my Thymleaf page:
<div class="panel-body">
<table class="table table-bordered table-striped">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Issue Date</th>
<th>Payment Schedule</th>
<th>Total</th>
<th>Status</th>
<th>Start Date</th>
<th>End Date</th>
<th>Send Invoice</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="table-row" th:each="p : ${POList}">
<td th:text="${p.issueDate}"></td>
<td th:text="${p.paymentSchedule}"></td>
<td th:text="${p.total}"></td>
<td th:text="${p.status}"></td>
<td th:text="${p.rentalPeriod.startDate}"></td>
<td th:text="${p.rentalPeriod.endDate}"></td>
<td>
<form style='float:left; padding:5px; height:0px' th:object="${po}" th:method="post" th:action="#{'/dashboard/makeAndSendInvoice(email=${po.Email})'}">
<button class="btn btn-default btn-xs" type="submit">Send Invoice</button>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
I have tried to send the value of po.Email to the method.
I thought the th:action="#{'/dashboard/makeAndSendInvoice(email=${po.Email})'}"
will make a link like dashboard/makeAndSendInvoice/{Email}
So i tried to get it in the method like this:
#RequestMapping(method=POST, path="makeAndSendInvoice")
public String makeAndSendInvoice(#PathVariable("email") String email){
System.out.println("Invoice is sent to..................."+email);
return "Invoice";
}
but it seems to me it does not work, since it does not recognize my method.
So how can recieve the po.Email in my method
Change th:action to:
th:action="#{/dashboard/makeAndSendInvoice/{email}(email=${po.Email})}"
and add the PathVariable in the RequestMapping value like:
#RequestMapping(method=POST, path="/dashboard/makeAndSendInvoice/{email:.+}")
public String makeAndSendInvoice(#PathVariable("email") String email) {
From Thymeleaf - Link URLs:
Variable templates are also allowed in URL paths, like
#{/order/{orderId}/details(orderId=${orderId})}
<!-- Will produce '/gtvg/order/details?orderId=3' (plus rewriting) -->
view
<!-- Will produce '/gtvg/order/3/details' (plus rewriting) -->
view
From Spring - URI Template Patterns:
In Spring MVC you can use the #PathVariable annotation on a method
argument to bind it to the value of a URI template variable:
#RequestMapping(value="/owners/{ownerId}", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String findOwner(#PathVariable String ownerId, Model model) {
Owner owner = ownerService.findOwner(ownerId);
model.addAttribute("owner", owner);
return "displayOwner";
}

How to bind an object list with thymeleaf?

I am having a lot of difficulty with POSTing back a form to the controller, which should contain simply an arraylist of objects that the user may edit.
The form loads up correctly, but when it's posted, it never seems to actually post anything.
Here is my form:
<form action="#" th:action="#{/query/submitQuery}" th:object="${clientList}" method="post">
<table class="table table-bordered table-hover table-striped">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Select</th>
<th>Client ID</th>
<th>IP Addresss</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr th:each="currentClient, stat : ${clientList}">
<td><input type="checkbox" th:checked="${currentClient.selected}" /></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getClientID()}" ></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getIpAddress()}"></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getDescription()}" ></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<button type="submit" value="submit" class="btn btn-success">Submit</button>
</form>
Above works fine, it loads up the list correctly. However, when I POST, it returns a empty object (of size 0). I believe this is due to the lack of th:field, but anyway here is controller POST method:
...
private List<ClientWithSelection> allClientsWithSelection = new ArrayList<ClientWithSelection>();
//GET method
...
model.addAttribute("clientList", allClientsWithSelection)
....
//POST method
#RequestMapping(value="/submitQuery", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String processQuery(#ModelAttribute(value="clientList") ArrayList clientList, Model model){
//clientList== 0 in size
...
}
I have tried adding a th:field but regardless of what I do, it causes an exception.
I've tried:
...
<tr th:each="currentClient, stat : ${clientList}">
<td><input type="checkbox" th:checked="${currentClient.selected}" th:field="*{}" /></td>
<td th th:field="*{currentClient.selected}" ></td>
...
I cannot access currentClient (compile error), I can't even select clientList, it gives me options like get(), add(), clearAll() etc, so it things it should have an array, however, I cannot pass in an array.
I've also tried using something like th:field=${}, this causes runtime exception
I've tried
th:field = "*{clientList[__currentClient.clientID__]}"
but also compile error.
Any ideas?
UPDATE 1:
Tobias suggested that I need to wrap my list in a wraapper. So that's what I did:
ClientWithSelectionWrapper:
public class ClientWithSelectionListWrapper {
private ArrayList<ClientWithSelection> clientList;
public List<ClientWithSelection> getClientList(){
return clientList;
}
public void setClientList(ArrayList<ClientWithSelection> clients){
this.clientList = clients;
}
}
My page:
<form action="#" th:action="#{/query/submitQuery}" th:object="${wrapper}" method="post">
....
<tr th:each="currentClient, stat : ${wrapper.clientList}">
<td th:text="${stat}"></td>
<td>
<input type="checkbox"
th:name="|clientList[${stat.index}]|"
th:value="${currentClient.getClientID()}"
th:checked="${currentClient.selected}" />
</td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getClientID()}" ></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getIpAddress()}"></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getDescription()}" ></td>
</tr>
Above loads fine:
Then my controller:
#RequestMapping(value="/submitQuery", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String processQuery(#ModelAttribute ClientWithSelectionListWrapper wrapper, Model model){
...
}
The page loads correctly, the data is displayed as expected. If I post the form without any selection I get this:
org.springframework.expression.spel.SpelEvaluationException: EL1007E:(pos 0): Property or field 'clientList' cannot be found on null
Not sure why it's complaining
(In the GET Method it has: model.addAttribute("wrapper", wrapper);)
If I then make a selection, i.e. tick the first entry:
There was an unexpected error (type=Bad Request, status=400).
Validation failed for object='clientWithSelectionListWrapper'. Error count: 1
I'm guessing my POST controller is not getting the clientWithSelectionListWrapper. Not sure why, since I have set the wrapper object to be posted back via the th:object="wrapper" in the FORM header.
UPDATE 2:
I've made some progress! Finally the submitted form is being picked up by the POST method in controller. However, all the properties appear to be null, except for whether the item has been ticked or not. I've made various changes, this is how it is looking:
<form action="#" th:action="#{/query/submitQuery}" th:object="${wrapper}" method="post">
....
<tr th:each="currentClient, stat : ${clientList}">
<td th:text="${stat}"></td>
<td>
<input type="checkbox"
th:name="|clientList[${stat.index}]|"
th:value="${currentClient.getClientID()}"
th:checked="${currentClient.selected}"
th:field="*{clientList[__${stat.index}__].selected}">
</td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getClientID()}"
th:field="*{clientList[__${stat.index}__].clientID}"
th:value="${currentClient.getClientID()}"
></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getIpAddress()}"
th:field="*{clientList[__${stat.index}__].ipAddress}"
th:value="${currentClient.getIpAddress()}"
></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getDescription()}"
th:field="*{clientList[__${stat.index}__].description}"
th:value="${currentClient.getDescription()}"
></td>
</tr>
I also added a default param-less constructor to my wrapper class and added a bindingResult param to POST method (not sure if needed).
public String processQuery(#ModelAttribute ClientWithSelectionListWrapper wrapper, BindingResult bindingResult, Model model)
So when an object is being posted, this is how it is looking:
Of course, the systemInfo is supposed to be null (at this stage), but the clientID is always 0, and ipAddress/Description always null. The selected boolean is correct though for all properties. I'm sure I've made a mistake on one of the properties somewhere. Back to investigation.
UPDATE 3:
Ok I've managed to fill up all the values correctly! But I had to change my td to include an <input /> which is not what I wanted... Nonetheless, the values are populating correctly, suggesting spring looks for an input tag perhaps for data mapping?
Here is an example of how I changed the clientID table data:
<td>
<input type="text" readonly="readonly"
th:name="|clientList[${stat.index}]|"
th:value="${currentClient.getClientID()}"
th:field="*{clientList[__${stat.index}__].clientID}"
/>
</td>
Now I need to figure out how to display it as plain data, ideally without any presence of an input box...
You need a wrapper object to hold the submited data, like this one:
public class ClientForm {
private ArrayList<String> clientList;
public ArrayList<String> getClientList() {
return clientList;
}
public void setClientList(ArrayList<String> clientList) {
this.clientList = clientList;
}
}
and use it as the #ModelAttribute in your processQuery method:
#RequestMapping(value="/submitQuery", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String processQuery(#ModelAttribute ClientForm form, Model model){
System.out.println(form.getClientList());
}
Moreover, the input element needs a name and a value. If you directly build the html, then take into account that the name must be clientList[i], where i is the position of the item in the list:
<tr th:each="currentClient, stat : ${clientList}">
<td><input type="checkbox"
th:name="|clientList[${stat.index}]|"
th:value="${currentClient.getClientID()}"
th:checked="${currentClient.selected}" />
</td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getClientID()}" ></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getIpAddress()}"></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getDescription()}" ></td>
</tr>
Note that clientList can contain null at
intermediate positions. Per example, if posted data is:
clientList[1] = 'B'
clientList[3] = 'D'
the resulting ArrayList will be: [null, B, null, D]
UPDATE 1:
In my exmple above, ClientForm is a wrapper for List<String>. But in your case ClientWithSelectionListWrapper contains ArrayList<ClientWithSelection>. Therefor clientList[1] should be clientList[1].clientID and so on with the other properties you want to sent back:
<tr th:each="currentClient, stat : ${wrapper.clientList}">
<td><input type="checkbox" th:name="|clientList[${stat.index}].clientID|"
th:value="${currentClient.getClientID()}" th:checked="${currentClient.selected}" /></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getClientID()}"></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getIpAddress()}"></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getDescription()}"></td>
</tr>
I've built a little demo, so you can test it:
Application.java
#SpringBootApplication
public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
}
}
ClientWithSelection.java
public class ClientWithSelection {
private Boolean selected;
private String clientID;
private String ipAddress;
private String description;
public ClientWithSelection() {
}
public ClientWithSelection(Boolean selected, String clientID, String ipAddress, String description) {
super();
this.selected = selected;
this.clientID = clientID;
this.ipAddress = ipAddress;
this.description = description;
}
/* Getters and setters ... */
}
ClientWithSelectionListWrapper.java
public class ClientWithSelectionListWrapper {
private ArrayList<ClientWithSelection> clientList;
public ArrayList<ClientWithSelection> getClientList() {
return clientList;
}
public void setClientList(ArrayList<ClientWithSelection> clients) {
this.clientList = clients;
}
}
TestController.java
#Controller
class TestController {
private ArrayList<ClientWithSelection> allClientsWithSelection = new ArrayList<ClientWithSelection>();
public TestController() {
/* Dummy data */
allClientsWithSelection.add(new ClientWithSelection(false, "1", "192.168.0.10", "Client A"));
allClientsWithSelection.add(new ClientWithSelection(false, "2", "192.168.0.11", "Client B"));
allClientsWithSelection.add(new ClientWithSelection(false, "3", "192.168.0.12", "Client C"));
allClientsWithSelection.add(new ClientWithSelection(false, "4", "192.168.0.13", "Client D"));
}
#RequestMapping("/")
String index(Model model) {
ClientWithSelectionListWrapper wrapper = new ClientWithSelectionListWrapper();
wrapper.setClientList(allClientsWithSelection);
model.addAttribute("wrapper", wrapper);
return "test";
}
#RequestMapping(value = "/query/submitQuery", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String processQuery(#ModelAttribute ClientWithSelectionListWrapper wrapper, Model model) {
System.out.println(wrapper.getClientList() != null ? wrapper.getClientList().size() : "null list");
System.out.println("--");
model.addAttribute("wrapper", wrapper);
return "test";
}
}
test.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<form action="#" th:action="#{/query/submitQuery}" th:object="${wrapper}" method="post">
<table class="table table-bordered table-hover table-striped">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Select</th>
<th>Client ID</th>
<th>IP Addresss</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr th:each="currentClient, stat : ${wrapper.clientList}">
<td><input type="checkbox" th:name="|clientList[${stat.index}].clientID|"
th:value="${currentClient.getClientID()}" th:checked="${currentClient.selected}" /></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getClientID()}"></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getIpAddress()}"></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getDescription()}"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<button type="submit" value="submit" class="btn btn-success">Submit</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
UPDATE 1.B:
Below is the same example using th:field and sending back all other attributes as hidden values.
<tbody>
<tr th:each="currentClient, stat : *{clientList}">
<td>
<input type="checkbox" th:field="*{clientList[__${stat.index}__].selected}" />
<input type="hidden" th:field="*{clientList[__${stat.index}__].clientID}" />
<input type="hidden" th:field="*{clientList[__${stat.index}__].ipAddress}" />
<input type="hidden" th:field="*{clientList[__${stat.index}__].description}" />
</td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getClientID()}"></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getIpAddress()}"></td>
<td th:text="${currentClient.getDescription()}"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
When you want to select objects in thymeleaf, you dont actually need to create a wrapper for the purpose of storing a boolean select field. Using dynamic fields as per the thymeleaf guide with syntax th:field="*{rows[__${rowStat.index}__].variety}" is good for when you want to access an already existing set of objects in a collection. Its not really designed for doing selections by using wrapper objects IMO as it creates unnecessary boilerplate code and is sort of a hack.
Consider this simple example, a Person can select Drinks they like. Note: Constructors, Getters and setters are omitted for clarity. Also, these objects are normally stored in a database but I am using in memory arrays to explain the concept.
public class Person {
private Long id;
private List<Drink> drinks;
}
public class Drink {
private Long id;
private String name;
}
Spring controllers
The main thing here is that we are storing the Person in the Model so we can bind it to the form within th:object.
Secondly, the selectableDrinks are the drinks a person can select on the UI.
#GetMapping("/drinks")
public String getDrinks(Model model) {
Person person = new Person(30L);
// ud normally get these from the database.
List<Drink> selectableDrinks = Arrays.asList(
new Drink(1L, "coke"),
new Drink(2L, "fanta"),
new Drink(3L, "sprite")
);
model.addAttribute("person", person);
model.addAttribute("selectableDrinks", selectableDrinks);
return "templates/drinks";
}
#PostMapping("/drinks")
public String postDrinks(#ModelAttribute("person") Person person) {
// person.drinks will contain only the selected drinks
System.out.println(person);
return "templates/drinks";
}
Template code
Pay close attention to the li loop and how selectableDrinks is used to get all possible drinks that can be selected.
The checkbox th:field really expands to person.drinks since th:object is bound to Person and *{drinks} simply is the shortcut to referring to a property on the Person object. You can think of this as just telling spring/thymeleaf that any selected Drinks are going to be put into the ArrayList at location person.drinks.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org"
xmlns:layout="http://www.ultraq.net.nz/thymeleaf/layout" >
<body>
<div class="ui top attached segment">
<div class="ui top attached label">Drink demo</div>
<form class="ui form" th:action="#{/drinks}" method="post" th:object="${person}">
<ul>
<li th:each="drink : ${selectableDrinks}">
<div class="ui checkbox">
<input type="checkbox" th:field="*{drinks}" th:value="${drink.id}">
<label th:text="${drink.name}"></label>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="field">
<button class="ui button" type="submit">Submit</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Any way...the secret sauce is using th:value=${drinks.id}. This relies on spring converters. When the form is posted, spring will try recreate a Person and to do this it needs to know how to convert any selected drink.id strings into the actual Drink type. Note: If you did th:value${drinks} the value key in the checkbox html would be the toString() representation of a Drink which is not what you want, hence need to use the id!. If you are following along, all you need to do is create your own converter if one isn't already created.
Without a converter you will receive an error like
Failed to convert property value of type 'java.lang.String' to required type 'java.util.List' for property 'drinks'
You can turn on logging in application.properties to see the errors in detail.
logging.level.org.springframework.web=TRACE
This just means spring doesn't know how to convert a string id representing a drink.id into a Drink. The below is an example of a Converter that fixes this issue. Normally you would inject a repository in get access the database.
#Component
public class DrinkConverter implements Converter<String, Drink> {
#Override
public Drink convert(String id) {
System.out.println("Trying to convert id=" + id + " into a drink");
int parsedId = Integer.parseInt(id);
List<Drink> selectableDrinks = Arrays.asList(
new Drink(1L, "coke"),
new Drink(2L, "fanta"),
new Drink(3L, "sprite")
);
int index = parsedId - 1;
return selectableDrinks.get(index);
}
}
If an entity has a corresponding spring data repository, spring automatically creates the converters and will handle fetching the entity when an id is provided (string id seems to be fine too so spring does some additional conversions there by the looks). This is really cool but can be confusing to understand at first.

Spring POST a large list of objects to controller

I followed the code from http://viralpatel.net/blogs/spring-mvc-multi-row-submit-java-list/ to post a list of objects to my Spring Controller. Soon, I ran into IndexOutOfBoundsException when the list size reached 256.
I found an answer which said setting the setAutoGrowCollectionLimit in WebDataBinder would solve this issue. So in my controller I did:
#InitBinder
public void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
binder.setAutoGrowCollectionLimit(2048);
}
#RequestMapping(value="/upload", method=RequestMethod.POST)
public String postData(Model model){
List<Products> products = //Some processing to get products list
ProductList productList = new ProductList();
productList.setProducts(products);
System.out.println(“Total records loaded: "+products.size());
model.addAttribute("productform", productList);
return “upload”;
}
#RequestMapping(value=“/process”, method=RequestMethod.POST)
public String uploadProcessedData(#ModelAttribute("productform") ProductList productList){
System.out.println(“Total records received: “+productList.getProducts().size());
return "upload";
}
My JSP code:
<form:form method="post" action="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/process” modelAttribute="productform">
<table>
<tr>
<th>Record</th>
<th>name</th>
</tr>
<c:forEach var="product" items="${productform.products}" varStatus="status">
<tr>
<td><c:out value="${status.index + 1}" /></td>
<td><input name="products[${status.index}].name” value="${product.name}”/></td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>
<input type="submit" value="Save" />
</form:form>
However, my form has 1000+ records and the controller only receives 556 records. Why this number? Is this because of any size limit? How can I get Spring to load all the 1000+ records.
You might want to add the enctype=multipart/form-data in the form tag for huge data, especially if you have non-ASCII characters in the payload. That might enable sending huge data in chunks.

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