org.springframework.web.servlet
Interface View

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractView

public interface View

MVC View for a web interaction. Implementations are responsible for rendering content, and exposing the model. A single view exposes multiple model attributes.

This class and the MVC approach associated with it is discussed in Chapter 12 of Expert One-On-One J2EE Design and Development by Rod Johnson (Wrox, 2002).

View implementations may differ widely. An obvious implementation would be JSP-based. Other implementations might be XSLT-based, or use an HTML generation library. This interface is designed to avoid restricting the range of possible implementations.

Views should be beans. They are likely to be instantiated as beans by a ViewResolver. As this interface is stateless, view implementations should be thread-safe.

Author:

Rod Johnson

See Also:

AbstractView, InternalResourceView

Method Summary

void	render(java.util.Map model, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) Render the view given the specified model.

Method Detail

render

public void render(java.util.Map model,
                   javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                   javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)
            throws java.lang.Exception

Render the view given the specified model. The first step will be preparing the request: In the JSP case, this would mean setting model objects as request attributes.

Parameters:

model - Map of model attributes (model name String mapped to model object)

request - current HTTP request

response - HTTP response we are building

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if rendering failed