NOTE: as this is a poc, it isn't production ready, missing validations, null checks, corner cases - so please don't be picky, focus on the concepts:
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add the maven dependency
<dependency> <groupId>org.jboss.aerogear</groupId> <artifactId>aerogear-controller</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> -
create a pojo controller
public class Home { public void index() { } } -
create a Java class containing the routes (must extend
AbstractRoutingModule)public class Routes extends AbstractRoutingModule { @Override public void configuration() { route() .from("/") .on(RequestMethod.GET) .to(Home.class).index(); } } -
create a jsp page at
/WEB-INF/pages/<Controller Class Name>/<method>.jsp<!-- /WEB-INF/pages/Home/index.jsp --> <html> <body> <p>hello from index!</p> </body> </html>
You can use immutable beans straight away as controller parameters:
public class Store {
public Car save(Car car) {
return car;
}
}
This can be populated by putting a route to it (preferrably via post, of course)
route()
.from("/cars")
.on(RequestMethod.POST)
.to(Store.class).save(param(Car.class));
And you can use a simple html form for it, by just following the convention:
<input type="text" name="car.color"/>
<input type="text" name="car.brand"/>
The car object will be automatically populated with the provided values - note that it supports deep linking, so this would work fine too:
<input type="text" name="car.brand.owner"/>
All the intermediate objects are created automatically.
you can find a slightly better example at https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-controller/tree/routes/aerogear-controller-demo