not able to bind property in spring form

Question

I have class User and userRole, I need to bind UserRole object in User i tried below code

UserRole.java

public class UserRoleBean {
private Integer role_id;
private String roleName;
private String roleDesc;
//getter setter
}

User.java

public class UserBean {


private Integer userId;
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private Date dob;
private String emailAddr;
private String mobileNo;
private Integer balance;
private String password;

private UserRoleBean roleBean;
//getter and setter;

}

AddUser.jsp

<form:form method="POST" action="saveUser.html" modelAttribute="userBean">
        <table>
            <tr>
                <td><form:label path="userId">User ID:</form:label></td>
                <td><form:input path="userId" value="${user.userId}" readonly="true"/></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td><form:label path="firstName">First Name:</form:label></td>
                <td><form:input path="firstName" value="${user.firstName}"/></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td><form:label path="lastName">Last Name :</form:label></td>
                <td><form:input path="lastName" value="${user.lastName}"/></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td><form:label path="emailAddr">Email Address :</form:label></td>
                <td><form:input path="emailAddr" value="${user.emailAddr}" readonly="false"/></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>

                <td><form:label path="dob">Date Of Birth:</form:label></td>
                 <td><form:input path="dob" /></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td><form:label path="mobileNo">Mobile No :</form:label></td>
                <td><form:input path="mobileNo" value="${user.mobileNo}"/></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td><form:label path="password">Password:</form:label></td>
                <td><form:password path="password" value="${user.password}"/></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td><form:label path="balance">Balance:</form:label></td>
                <td><form:input path="balance" value="${user.balance}"/></td>
            </tr>
             <tr>
                <td><form:label path="roleBean">Select Role:</form:label></td>
               <td>
            <form:select path="roleBean">
            <form:option value="0" label="Select" />
            <form:options items="${forRoles}" itemValue="role_id" itemLabel="roleName" />
            </form:select> 
                </td>

            </tr> 
       <tr>
     <td colspan="2"><input type="submit" value="${cap}"/></td>
    </tr>
        </table> 
    </form:form>

Other Property is bind but roleBean unable to bind, how to do this,
any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

You have to set each property of roleBean seperately like you were doing for User object.

While setting any property of roleBean use roleBean.role_id for Id, `roleBean.roleName' for 'roleName'.

Like your path for roleName is <form:select path="roleBean"> but it should be <form:select path="roleBean.roleName"> if its for roleName. Same goes for other attributes.