Spring mapping form's action to the controller

Question

I am new to the Spring Framework and I have created a controller with the method

@RequestMapping("/fetch/{contactId}")
public String getContact(@PathVariable("contactId") Long contactId,
        Map<String, Object> map, HttpServletRequest request,
        HttpServletResponse response) {

    Contact contact = contactService.get(contactId);
    map.put("contact", contact);
    return "contact";
}

This fetch method is called to retrieve the contact details when the user clicks on the link on a jsp

<td><a href="fetch/${contact.id}" class="edit">Edit</a></td>

It then successfully returns the contact object and displays on the screen for the user to change and save. The form tag of my jsp is like this

<form:form method="post" action="add.html" commandName="contact"
        id="contact" onsubmit="return validateContact(this)">

Now the problem is when I try to submit the page to another method in the same controller the URL changes to

/myapp/app/contacts/fetch/add.html

whereas it should be

/myapp/app/contacts/add.html

I know there is something which I am not doing correctly but what exactly I am not able to figure out. Appreciate if any one of you could help me resolve the issue

Thanks AA

Answer 1

Use

<c:url var="addUrl" value="/contacts/add.html"/>
<form:form method="post" action="${addUrl}" commandName="contact"
      id="contact" onsubmit="return validateContact(this)">

In general, it is recomended to use c:url in every application internal instead of direct use of the url in a <a> tag.

Answer 2

<form:form method="post" servletRelativeAction="/contacts/add" commandName="contact"
        id="contact" onsubmit="return validateContact(this)">

Use attribute servletRelativeAction to map to desired controller action. I assume that your desired controller is mapped as '/contacts/add' not 'add.html'. You want to hit the controller not the view.