I'm trying to learn Spring / mvc framework. I've created a basic example where I'm printing a simple string to the screen, this is fine, I now want to iterate over the list of strings but nothing is appearing. It seems as though my foreach is looking at the collection as a whole instead of the elements within. I'm printing an additional character in the loop and only one is displayed yet there are 4 items.
Printing ti straight to the screen without the foreach shows the contents in the fashion of [a,b,c,d].
I'm not sure what it is that I'm doing wrong, any help is appreciated.
Controller:
@Controller
public class HelloController {
//the request mapping simply says, what url am i tied to?
@RequestMapping(value = "/greeting") //defines the url and the method
it is tied to
public String sayHello(Model model){ //model is a key-value pair.
List<String> stringList = new ArrayList<String>();
stringList.add("A");
stringList.add("B");
stringList.add("C");
stringList.add("D");
model.addAttribute("greeting", "Hello, World"); //greeting is key, value hello world
//the jsp page will reference back to 'greeting' as above.
model.addAttribute("stringList", stringList);
model.addAttribute("stringlist2", "stringlist2");
return "hello";//this ties us to the jsp pages
}
}
JSP:
<h1>
${greeting}
${stringList}
${stringlist2}
<%--this maps to the model attribute greeting in the controller.--%>
</h1>
<c:forEach items="${stringList}" var="elt">
<div>:<c:out value="${elt}"/></div>
</c:forEach>
Result on page:
Hello, World [A, B, C, D] stringlist2
: //this is the extra char I'm printing in the foreach.
