Spring MVC Regular Expression Validation

The Spring MVC Validation allows us to validate the user input in a particular sequence (i.e., regular expression). The @Pattern annotation is used to achieve regular expression validation. Here, we can provide the required regular expression to regexp attribute and pass it with the annotation.

Spring MVC Regular Expression Validation Example

1. Add dependencies to pom.xml file.

pom.xml

  <!– https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-webmvc –>  <dependency>      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>      <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>      <version>5.1.1.RELEASE</version>  </dependency>  <!– https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-jasper –>  <dependency>      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>      <artifactId>tomcat-jasper</artifactId>      <version>9.0.12</version>  </dependency>      <!– https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/javax.servlet-api –>  <dependency>        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>        <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>        <version>3.0-alpha-1</version>    </dependency>  <!– https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/jstl –>  <dependency>      <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>      <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>      <version>1.2</version>  </dependency>   <!– https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hibernate.validator/hibernate-validator –>  <dependency>      <groupId>org.hibernate.validator</groupId>      <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>      <version>6.0.13.Final</version>  </dependency>  

2. Create the bean class

Employee.java

  package com.tutoraspire;    import javax.validation.constraints.Pattern;  public class Employee {    private String name;  @Pattern(regexp=”^[a-zA-Z0-9]{3}”,message=”length must be 3″)  private String pass;    public String getName() {  return name;  }  public void setName(String name) {  this.name = name;  }  public String getPass() {  return pass;  }  public void setPass(String pass) {  this.pass = pass;  }  }  

3. Create the controller class

  package com.tutoraspire;    import javax.validation.Valid;  import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;  import org.springframework.ui.Model;  import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;    @Controller  public class EmployeeController {    @RequestMapping(“/hello”)  public String display(Model m)  {  m.addAttribute(“emp”, new Employee());  return “viewpage”;  }  @RequestMapping(“/helloagain”)  public String submitForm(@Valid @ModelAttribute(“emp”) Employee e, BindingResult br)  {  if(br.hasErrors())  {  return “viewpage”;  }  else  {  return “final”;  }  }  }  

4. Provide the entry of controller in the web.xml file

web.xml

  <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>  <web-app xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xmlns=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee” xsi:schemaLocation=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd” id=”WebApp_ID” version=”3.0″>    <display-name>SpringMVC</display-name>     <servlet>        <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>      </servlet>    <servlet-mapping>        <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>    </servlet-mapping>    </web-app>  

5. Define the bean in the xml file

spring-servlet.xml

  <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>  <beans xmlns=”http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans”  xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”   xmlns:context=”http://www.springframework.org/schema/context”  xmlns:mvc=”http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc”  xsi:schemaLocation=”  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd      http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc          http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd”>  <!– Provide support for component scanning –>  <context:component-scan base-package=”com.tutoraspire” />  <!–Provide support for conversion, formatting and validation –>  <mvc:annotation-driven/>  <!– Define Spring MVC view resolver –>       <bean id=”viewResolver” class=”org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver”>          <property name=”prefix” value=”/WEB-INF/jsp/”></property>          <property name=”suffix” value=”.jsp”></property>            </bean>  </beans>  

6. Create the requested page

index.jsp

  index.jsp  <%@ taglib prefix=”form” uri=”http://www.springframework.org/tags/form” %>  <html>  <body>  <a href=”../hello”>Click here…</a>  </body>  </html>  

7. Create the other view components

viewpage.jsp

  <%@ taglib prefix=”form” uri=”http://www.springframework.org/tags/form” %>  <html>  <head>  <style>  .error{color:red}  </style>  </head>  <body>  <form:form action=”helloagain” modelAttribute=”emp”>  Username: <form:input path=”name”/> <br><br>  Password(*): <form:password path=”pass”/>    <form:errors path=”pass” cssClass=”error”/><br><br>  <input type=”submit” value=”submit”>  </form:form>  </body>  </html>  

final.jsp

  <html>  <body>  Username: ${emp.name} <br><br>  Password: ${emp.pass}  </body>  </html>  

Output:

Spring MVC Regular Expression Validation

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Spring MVC Regular Expression Validation Example

1. Add dependencies to pom.xml file.

2. Create the bean class

3. Create the controller class

4. Provide the entry of controller in the web.xml file

5. Define the bean in the xml file

6. Create the requested page

7. Create the other view components

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