Thymeleaf #strings.trim() doesn't work

Question

In short: I'm getting data from google places api and want to create entity in my db based on it. I have @Email annotation on a username field, so it can't contain white spaces. I was trying to use something like this:

th:value="${#strings.trim(place.name) + '@mywebsite.com'}"

But, it seems not work... I also tried different methods, just to double check if syntax is correct, on #strings like:

th:value="${#strings.toLowerCase(place.name) + '@mywebsite.com'}"

and its works just fine.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I'm assuming by the latest comments that you want to replace white spaces, something like:

this is an email to thisisanemail

You can try:

th:value="${#strings.replace(place.name,' ','') + '@mywebsite.com'}" 

The above code is an example of how to do it in thymeleaf but, in my opinion, you should handle it in the backend.