Redirect in post mode inside a controller's method

Question

EDIT: If someone has problems following the guide below, I suggest to use an easier approach, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaxUV3Ib4vM

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I'm still following this tutorial: spring-mvc-radiobutton-and-radiobuttons-example and I've created this controller so far:

    @RequestMapping(value = "add", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String add(Model model) {
    MyObject object = new MyObject();
    object.setParameter("fake parameter");
    model.addAttribute("add", object);
    initModelList(model);
    return "add";
}

@RequestMapping(value = "add", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String add(@ModelAttribute("add") @Validated MyObject object, BindingResult result, Model model) {
    model.addAttribute("add", object);
    String returnVal = "redirect:/add/object";
    if(result.hasErrors()) {
        initModelList(model);
        returnVal = "add";
    } else {
        model.addAttribute("add", object);
    }       
    return returnVal;
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/add/object", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String addObject(
                            @ModelAttribute MyObject object,
                            ModelMap model) throws DatatypeConfigurationException {
      try{
      ...marshalling results in xml output 
      ...inserting it in database
      ...showing the result
        
        return "objectResult";
        
    } catch (Exception e) {
        LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
    
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}

Of course this solution don't work, since the redirect is of type GET. I've tried to fuse the last two methods together, like so:

    @RequestMapping(value = "add", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String add(@ModelAttribute("add") @Validated MyObject object, BindingResult result, Model model)
         throws DatatypeConfigurationException {
    model.addAttribute("add", object);
    String returnVal = "objectResult";
    if(result.hasErrors()) {
        initModelList(model);
        returnVal = "add";
    } else {
        model.addAttribute("add", object);
    }       
    try{
    ...mashalling etcetera
        return returnVal;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
    
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}

But in that way the validation don't work. I don't know how to solve this problem, I would like to use the spring validator but if I can't use it I will regress the project, which is a shame.

Answer 1

If someone have problems following the same guide, I suggest to use an easier approach, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaxUV3Ib4vM It doesn't neeed to update the maven dependency