Avoiding Jquery for ajax call in Thymeleaf

[Ayan Biswas]

I am using Thymeleaf in my App.To process ajax requests I am using jquery to call the contrller .Like this :

    function doAjaxCallIdentifier() {
	var idNumber = $('#idNumber').val();
	var issueLocation = $('#issueLocation').val();
	var issueDate = $('#issueDate').val();
	var expiryDate = $('#expiryDate').val();
	var url='/SpringUI/spring/addIndentifier/';
	$("#content").load(url,{'idNumber':idNumber,'issueLocation':issueLocation,'issueDate':issueDate,'expiryDate':expiryDate},function() {
		$('#idNumber').val('');$('#issueLocation').val('');$('#issueDate').val('');$('#expiryDate').val('');
	});
    }

Here is the methos in my controller

    @RequestMapping(value="/addIndentifier",method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public String addIndentifier(@RequestParam(value = "idNumber") String idNumber, @RequestParam(value = "issueLocation") String issueLocation,@RequestParam(value = "issueDate") String issueDate, @RequestParam(value = "expiryDate") String expiryDate,Model model,HttpSession session)
	{
		ModelMap modelMap=(ModelMap)session.getAttribute("modelMap");
		if(modelMap!=null)
		{
			PersonTO personTO=(PersonTO)modelMap.get("personTO");
			IdentifierBean identifierBean=new IdentifierBean();
			identifierBean.setIdNumber(idNumber);
			identifierBean.setIssueLocation(issueLocation);
			identifierBean.setIssueDate(issueDate);
			identifierBean.setExpiryDate(expiryDate);
			personTO.getIdBeanLst().add(identifierBean);
			model.addAttribute("idBeanLst", personTO.getIdBeanLst());
			System.out.println("personTO.idbean size"+personTO.getIdBeanLst().size());
		}
		return "personidentifier :: resultsList";
    }

Is it possible to avoid jquery in Thymeleaf for the ajax call?

[Bear Bibeault]

Why?

[Ayan Biswas]

The reason I want to avoid using jquery is that
1) I have to explicitly send the values of the of each attribute of a bean and then receive them inside the method in the controller.
I would be much simpler if I could just use something like this in the method signature in the method that gets called by the ajax request

@RequestMapping(value="/addIndentifier",method=RequestMethod.POST)  
    public String addIndentifier(@ModelAttribute IdentiferBean idenBean){
}

If I can do something like this, then, i would get the values that the user entered in the form through the Bean mentioned in @ModelAttribute .

[Bear Bibeault]

Whether you use jQuery or not isn't going to change how an HTTP request is made. jQuery creates a standard HTTP request just like any other means. What you need to do is to figure out exactly how you need the POST request to be formatted, and then you can use jQuery, or any other Ajax implementation, to make that request in the proper format.