Some better way to bind?

[Ana]

Hello,

Is there maybe some better practice for binding nested objects when using spring binding and Form Controllers than the one suggested in the code bellow:

e.g.situation: A Student holds reference to a nested object of class University, and both Student and University map to their own tables in DB:


form:

<select name="universityId">
<c:forEach var="university" items="${universityList}">
<option value="<c:out value="${university.id}"/>"
<c:if test="${not empty student.university.id}">
<c:if test="${student.university.id == university.id}">selected="selected"</c:if>
</c:if>
>
<c:out value="${university.name}"/>
</option>
</c:forEach>
</select>

FormController - onBindandValidate:

String universityId = request.getParameter("universityId");
if (universityId!= null && !universityId.equals("")) {
University university = universityManager.getUniversity(universityId);
user.setUniversity(university);
}

Tnx in advance for the recommendation!

[Colin Yates]

Maybe checkout http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=17646 (shameless plug ;))