Ajax to Spring MVC Controller and back

Question

Here's the desired flow that I am looking for :

Large data (table) is passed to Spring Controller through a javascript function.
Controller processes the data.
Controller returns a new ModelAndView
Render this new ModelAndView on the screen.

I am trying to send data to controller using an Ajax call. However, the returned modelandview ends up as a response to the ajax call, and as a result does not get rendered on the screen.

Is there a away I can avoid this behavior. Or perhaps, an approach to achieve the flow I am looking for?

Thanks.

I was looking for something similar to this as well, unfortunately I had to use jQuery and that Ajax response to change the data. I do not believe you can do what you want without a page refresh. Assuming you are using Java, the model is rendered to the view server side before loading on the client side. (I am fairly new to MVC, so I may be wrong, if there is another solution, I want to hear it as well). — WebDevNewbie
– WebDevNewbie, Commented Oct 2, 2012 at 19:58
If I just invoke the controller method mapping url on the browser (that is, not use an ajax call), the new ModelAndView gets rendered like a charm. But ofcourse, in this case, I have not passed my data to the controller. So I'm basically looking for a way to pass the data to the controller. — Angad
– Angad, Commented Oct 2, 2012 at 20:03

JB Nizet · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-02 20:01:35Z

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If you want to refresh the whole page, using AJAX doesn't bring any advantage.

If you only want to refresh some part of the page, then you need to provide a JavaScript callback function that will use the AJAX response, and modify the DOM of the current page.

answered Oct 2, 2012 at 20:01

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