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Action in grails form is not working

I am trying to make a simple creation of account and when create button is clicked it should perform the action "create" but I get an error saying that
HTTP Status 404 - "/WEB-INF/grails-app/views/users/create.gsp" not found.

Here is my code block for the index.gsp

<!-- CREATEFORM -->
<div id="id02" class="modal">
  <g:form class="modal-content animate" controller="users" action="create">
    <div class="imgcontainer">
      <span onclick="document.getElementById('id02').style.display='none'" class="close" title="Close Modal">&times;</span>
        <div class="container" style="text-align:center">
            <b><h style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 30px">CREATE AN ACCOUNT</h></b><br/>
      <input type="text" placeholder="Enter Username" name="uname" required/>

      <input type="password" placeholder="Enter Password" name="psw" required/>

      <input type="text" placeholder="First Name" name="firstName" required/>

      <input type="text" placeholder="Last Name" name="lastName" required/>

      <input type="text" placeholder="Age" name="age" required/>
      <br/>
      <input type="date" placeholder="Birth Date" name="birthdate" required/>
      <br/>
      <input type="text" placeholder="Student Number" name="studno" required/><br/>

      <label>
        <input type="checkbox" checked="checked" name="remember"> Remember me</input>
      </label>
      <br/>
      <button type="submit" style="width: 100px; margin-right:10px;" >Create</input>
      <button type="button" onclick="document.getElementById('id02').style.display='none'" class="cancelbtn">Cancel</button>

    </div>
    </div>
  </g:form>
</div>

and Here is my code block for the usersController.

class usersController {    
    def index(){}
    def create()
    {
        new Users(userid:params.uname,password:params.psw).save()
        new UserInfo(studentno:params.studno,age:params.age,birth_date:params.birthdate,first_name:params.firstName,last_name:params.lastName,user_id:params.uname).save()
    }
}

And here's the error

Error Page

Solution

  • In Grails for action (non gsp) you need to render something to the client, otherwise it executes everything inside that action, but returns 404 gsp not found response, if there is no render / redirection statement it consider that action as a gsp but it is not gsp actually, therefore it responds 404.

    You could render something data like list / JSON or simple string as follows.

    def create() {
 //your business logic is here
 render "operation performed successfully"

}