Spring Binding Errors

[Raj Shharma]

Hi,

I am getting following error message:

  java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither BindingResult 
    nor plain target object for bean name 'billingInfoCommand' 
    available as request attribute

My controller looks like:

public class BillingInfoController extends FusionFormController {
    	protected final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());
    	private FieldAccessService fieldAccessService;

        	public BillingInfoController(){
    		setCommandClass(CommonCommand.class);
    		setCommandName("billingInfoCommand");
    	}
    
       protected Map referenceData(HttpServletRequest request,Object command, Errors errors) throws Exception {
    
    		CommonCommand commonCommand=(CommonCommand)command;
    		HashMap<String,Object> refDataMap=new HashMap<String,Object>();
    		refDataMap.put("billingTypes",this.getLookupValsAsMap("getBillingTypes"));
    		Long stageId=commonCommand.getEmeaMain().getStageId();
    	    refDataMap.put("requiredFields",requiredFields);
    		return refDataMap;
    	}
    
    
      public Object formBackingObject(HttpServletRequest request){
    	    BillingInfo billingInfoObj=null;
    	    Long cepWorkItemNo=null;
    		CommonCommand billingInfoCommand=new CommonCommand();
    		try{
    		 cepWorkItemNo=new Long(request.getParameter("cep_work_item_no"));
    		}catch(NumberFormatException e){
    		}
    		if(cepWorkItemNo==null){
    		   billingInfoObj=new BillingInfo();
    		}else{
    		  billingInfoObj=(BillingInfo)domainService.getDomainObject(BillingInfo.class,cepWorkItemNo);
    		}
    		if(billingInfoCommand.getBillingInfo()==null)
    		   billingInfoCommand.setBillingInfo(billingInfoObj);
    	    if(billingInfoCommand.getEmeaMain()==null)
    	    	billingInfoCommand.setEmeaMain(emeaMain);
    		return billingInfoCommand;
       }
    }

My Pojo class looks like:

public class BillingInfo {
    
    	private Integer billingId;
    
    	public Integer getBillingId() {
    		return billingId;
    	}
    	public void setBillingId(Integer billingId) {
    		this.billingId = billingId;
    	}
    }

Note

I have posted only relevant pieces of code here. I am not sure as to why am I getting mentioned error about IllegalStateException and some useful pointers would be appreciated.

Also, what are normal reason for getting `Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name x available as request attribute` errors ?

Thanks.