IllegalStateException:Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name available

[VenkataPrasad Regula]

I am facing this issue since yesterday

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

I have set the value for command i.e commandName in jsp, Controller class and xxx-servlet class. All are thge same I am still facing the exception

POJO file

package spring.login.pojo;

public class CustomerAction {
	public String customerAction;

	public String getCustomerAction() {
		return customerAction;
	}

	public void setCustomerAction(String customerAction) {
		this.customerAction = customerAction;
	}
}

Controller File

package spring.login.web;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.springframework.validation.BindException;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleFormController;

import spring.login.pojo.CustomerAction;

public class CustomerActionController extends SimpleFormController {

	public CustomerActionController()
	{
		setCommandClass(CustomerAction.class);
		setCommandName("customerAction");
	}
	
	protected ModelAndView onSubmit(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response,
			                        Object command, BindException errors) throws Exception
    {
		CustomerAction customerAction = (CustomerAction)command;
		
		if(customerAction.getCustomerAction().equalsIgnoreCase("Add Customer"))
		{
			return new ModelAndView("AddCustomer");
		}
		else if(customerAction.getCustomerAction().equalsIgnoreCase("Update Customer"))
		{
			String action="update";
			return new ModelAndView("SearchCustomer","action",action);
		}
		else if(customerAction.getCustomerAction().equalsIgnoreCase("Delete Customer"))
		{
			String action="delete";
			return new ModelAndView("SearchCustomer","action",action);
		}
		return null;
    }
	
	protected Map referenceData(HttpServletRequest request) throws Exception
	{
		Map referenceData = new HashMap();
		
		List<String> customerActions= new ArrayList<String>();
		customerActions.add("Add Customer");
		customerActions.add("Update Customer");
		customerActions.add("Delete Customer");
		
		referenceData.put("custActions", customerActions);
		return referenceData;
	}
	
	protected Object formBackingObject(HttpServletRequest request)
	{
		return new CustomerAction();
	}
}

bean mapping file

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
	                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
	
	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping"/>
	
	<bean name="login" class="springlogin.LoginController" >
		<property name="formView" value="LoginForm"/>
		<property name="successView" value="HomeForm"/>
		
		<property name="validator">
			<bean class="springlogin.LoginValidator"/>
		</property>
	</bean>
	 
	<bean name="custAction" class="spring.login.web.CustomerActionController" >
		<property name="formView" value="HomeForm"/>
		<property name="successView" value="AddCustomerForm"/>
		<property name="commandName"><value>customerAction</value></property>
		<property name="commandClass"><value>spring.login.pojo.CustomerAction</value></property>
		<property name="bindOnNewForm"><value>true</value></property>
		<!-- 
		<property name="validator">
			<bean class="spring.login.validator.CustomerActionValidator"/>
		</property>
		 -->
	</bean>
	
	<!-- 
	<bean id="jspPropertiesPlacholder" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer" lazy-init="false">
    	<property name="location" value="classpath:/resources/Customer.properties" />
	</bean>
	 -->
	
	<!-- 	 
	<bean id="messageSource"  
        class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">  
    	<property name="basename" value="/"/>
  	</bean>  
	-->
	   	
	<bean id="viewresolver"
	      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
		<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/pages/"/>
		<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
	</bean>
</beans>	

JSP File

<%@taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %>
<%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>

<html>
<head>
<title>Home Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Home Page</h2>
<form:form method="post" commandName="customerAction">
	<table>
		<tr>
			<td><b>Select the option</b></td>
			<td><form:select path="customerAction">   -------->Error is thrown at this line
				<form:option value="NONE" label="---Select---"/>
				<form:option value="${custActionList}"/>
			    </form:select> </td>
			<td><form:errors path="customerAction" cssClass="error"/></td>    
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td><input type="submit"/></td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</form:form>

<form:form>

</form:form>
</body>
</html>

[VenkataPrasad Regula]

This is what happens in my case.

1. The login page is filled and submitted. The login page has its command class which is a pojo

2. After submission it is forwarded to a new page which has drop down menu. Hence the new page has an other command class by itself, to load the data related to that page. As I
mention the name of the command class in the jsp while loading the jsp it is displaying the error java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither Binding Result nor plain target object for
bean name available as request attribute

[VenkataPrasad Regula]

Which ever site I visit on Google, I am finding a form being submitted and the data is being displayed on the second form. Here I have a page(page1) which has a command object to itself and on submission, It moves to second page(page2). page 2 has its own form objects as textbox, dropdown etc. Hence it has its own command object.AS I mention the command object in the second page it is throwing the error, java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither Binding Result nor plain target object for bean name available as request attribute

[VenkataPrasad Regula]

I have not done any thing as DI. I have page 1(Login page). Once the page is submitted it is supposed to go to home page as given below in the success view in bold. The seconddpage Home page has a dropdown menu, for which I created a pojo, to store the data related to that page. I mentioned that class, in the command class and command and mentioned the classname commandclassname of the secong jsp page and the controller class related to that class. It is giving the error(Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name available).

<bean name="login" class="springlogin.LoginController" >
<property name="formView" value="LoginForm"/>
<property name="successView" value="HomeForm"/>

<property name="validator">
<bean class="springlogin.LoginValidator"/>
</property>
</bean>

[Tommy Delson]

Your problems is similar to other post I have provided the solution see below.

http://www.coderanch.com/t/547929/Spring/IllegalStateException-Neither-BindingResult-nor-plain

Refer to Spring document and other resources for how to do correctly.

[VenkataPrasad Regula]

Tommy,
You appear to have given the wrong url. The URL that has been provided is the URL of my question

[Tommy Delson]

My bad, here you go: http://www.coderanch.com/t/547675/Spring/Neither-BindingResult-nor-plain-target