I have a simple controller for a post request, after which I would like to redirect to another page. This is the controller:
@Controller
public class NoteController {
private NoteService noteService;
private UserService userService;
public NoteController(NoteService noteService, UserService userService) {
this.noteService = noteService;
this.userService = userService;
}
@PostMapping("/notes")
public String postNote(@ModelAttribute Note noteForm, Authentication authentication, Model model) {
User user = this.userService.getUser(authentication.getName());
Integer userid = user.getUserId();
try {
noteService.createNote(noteForm, userid);
model.addAttribute("success",true);
model.addAttribute("message","New note added!");
} catch (Exception e) {
model.addAttribute("error",true);
model.addAttribute("message","System error!" + e.getMessage());
}
return "redirect:/result";
}
}
And after a successful request where I can see that an item is saved in DB, the redirect fails and I get a message:
There was an unexpected error (type=Not Found, status=404). No message available
There is no error in terminal. So, I can't see why is this happening. I am completely new to Spring and Java, so I have no idea what am I doing wrong here?
Update
I have tried with creating a controller for a result template as suggested in answers.
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/result")
public class ResultController {
@GetMapping()
public String getResultPage() {
return "result";
}
}
Then if I do a redirect from a NoteController like this:
@PostMapping("/notes")
public String postNote(@ModelAttribute Note noteForm, Authentication authentication, Model model) {
User user = this.userService.getUser(authentication.getName());
Integer userid = user.getUserId();
try {
noteService.createNote(noteForm, userid);
model.addAttribute("success",true);
model.addAttribute("message","New note added!");
} catch (Exception e) {
model.addAttribute("error",true);
model.addAttribute("message","System error!" + e.getMessage());
}
return "redirect:result";
}
I am redirected to a result template, but the attributes are not being passed:
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:th="https://www.thymeleaf.org">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" th:href="@{/css/bootstrap.min.css}">
<title>Result</title>
</head>
<body class="p-3 mb-2 bg-light text-black">
<div class="container justify-content-center w-50 p-3" style="margin-top: 5em;">
<div class="alert alert-success fill-parent" th:if="${success}">
<h1 class="display-5">Success</h1>
<span th:text="${message}">Success Message</span>
<span>Your changes were successfully saved. Click <a th:href="@{/home}">here</a> to continue.</span>
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger fill-parent" th:if="${error}">
<h1 class="display-5">Error</h1>
<span>Your changes were not saved</span>
<span th:text="${message}">Error Message</span>
<span>Click <a th:href="@{/home}">here</a> to continue.</span>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
How should I pass the attributes to this template?