Spring: Developing Java Applications for the Enterprise
by Ravi Kant Soni, Amuthan Ganeshan, Rajesh RV
Customizing data binding
In the last section, you saw how to bind data submitted by an HTML form to a form backing bean. In order to do the binding, Spring MVC internally uses a special binding object called WebDataBinder (org.springframework.web.bind.WebDataBinder).
WebDataBinder extracts the data out of the HttpServletRequest object and converts it to a proper data format, loads it into a form backing bean, and validates it. To customize the behavior of data binding, we can initialize and configure the WebDataBinder object in our Controller. The
@InitBinder
(org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.InitBinder) annotation helps us to do that. The @InitBinder annotation designates a method to initialize WebDataBinder.
Let's look at a practical use ...
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