Circular view path

Question

I am using Spring MVC 3 and all I am trying to do is submitting a form with post request and redirecting the post request handler on the controller to some page. But I am getting the following error when I try to do that:

javax.servlet.ServletException: Circular view path [thanks.htm]: would dispatch back to the current handler URL [/wickedlysmart/thanks.htm] again. Check your ViewResolver setup! (Hint: This may be the result of an unspecified view, due to default view name generation.)

Following is the code I am using:

Request handler:

@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET, value="thanks")
public ModelAndView thanks() {
    logger.debug("redirecting..");
    return new ModelAndView("thanks");
}
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST, value="talk")
public String processContactForm(HttpServletRequest req) {      
    //...
    return "redirect:thanks";
}

View resolver in spring application context:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">

    <property name="prefix" value="" />
    <property name="suffix" value=".htm" />

</bean>

I am not quite able to understand what is going on here. I see "redirecting.." being logged and then I get this error. Could someone help me with this issue?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Following solved the problem:

@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET, value="captured")
public ModelAndView thanks() {
    logger.debug("redirecting..");
    return new ModelAndView("thanks");
}
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST, value="talk")
public String processContactForm(HttpServletRequest req) {      
    //...
    return "redirect:captured";
}

As you could see, I just changed the redirect from "thanks" to "captured" and modified the "value" for the redirect request handler from "thanks" to "captured" as well and it worked. Thanks.