Reference data is lost when form fails validation in spring3 annotation based controller?

You should provide reference data like your CountryDivisions with the help of the annotation @ModelAttribute. This has the great advantage that you don't need to repeat yourself over and over and provide the same data within multiple methods.

You should provide reference data like your CountryDivisions with the help of the annotation @ModelAttribute. This has the great advantage that you don't need to repeat yourself over and over and provide the same data within multiple methods. For your example I would provide something like this: @ModelAttribute("countryDivisions") public List populateCountryDivisions() { return countryDivisionService.

GetCountryDivisionOrderedByCode(); } This gives your views access to a model attribute called "countryDivisions" that holds a list of "CountryDivison"-objects provided by the service method from your "countryDivisionService".

Thanks! That makes sense. For some reason, it didn't occur to me to have more than one method annotated at @ModelAttribute – nont Sep 17 '10 at 11:22 You are welcome!

It is completely valid to have multiple methods annotated with @ModelAttribute in one single controller. – stefanglase Sep 17 '10 at 15:28.

Why not just do if (result.hasErrors()) { model. Put("commandName", "myInfoForm"); loadReferenceData(model); return "contactEdit"; }.

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