How to do both?

[Mimi Tam]

Hi,

Pardon me if I am asking a question with obvious answers but I don't have a clear answer and hope to get some help.


According to MVC, the POST below will persist input data to my database and return a URI for the 'created' View to display/render data that's been uploaded.

@RequestMapping("/httpmsg/**")
@Controller
public class HTTPMsgController {	
    
		@RequestMapping(value = "/httpmsg", method = RequestMethod.POST)
		public String create(@Valid HTTPMsg httpmsg, BindingResult result, ModelMap modelMap) {
        if (httpmsg == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("An HTTPMsg object is required");
        if (result.hasErrors()) {
            modelMap.addAttribute("httpmsg", httpmsg);
            return "httpmsg/create";
        }
        httpmsg.persist();
        return "redirect:/httpmsg/" + httpmsg.getId();  } 

In addition to doing this, how can I send a HTTP Response message back to the originating HTTP Requester?

Many Thanks in advance.