Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

Displaying comments

Now we can make edits to our Thymeleaf template and create input fields for people to write comments:

    <td> 
        <ul> 
            <li th:each="comment : ${image.comments}" 
                th:text="${comment.comment}"></li> 
        </ul> 
    </td> 
    <td> 
        <form th:method="post" th:action="@{'/comments'}"> 
            <input name="comment" value="" type="text" /> 
            <input name="imageId" th:value="${image.id}"             type="hidden" /> 
            <input type="submit" /> 
        </form> 
    </td> 

The section of our preceding template where each row is rendered can be explained as follows:

• There is a new column containing an HTML unordered list to display each comment
• The unordered list consists of an HTML line item for each comment via Thymeleaf's th:each construct
• There is also a new column containing an HTML form ...