Hi peeps

Could someone recommend the best way of populating a drop down list in edit/add forms? New to spring mvc and not sure of the correct way of going about it.

I have a list of countries stored in the database. Access to these are provided by a Generic Manager for crud. One of my edit pages needs to associate the object with a Country. I've tried to do it with referenceData but I'm getting problems.

protected Map referenceData(HttpServletRequest request) throws Exception {
       Map retval = new HashMap<String, Object>();
       retval.put("countryList", countryManager.getAll());
       return retval;
}

The above does return a list of country objects.

I've got the below in my jsp:
<form:select path="contact.country">
   <form:option value="-" label="--Please Select"/>
   <form:options items="${countryList}" itemValue="id" itemLabel="name"/>
</form:select>

Unfortunately this throws a JasperException when I try to load the page. If I remove the above from the jsp the page works fine. From my googling, it seems I may need to use a PropertyEditor, but I can't find any concrete examples of what I'm trying to do, and how to use the PropertyEditor in this context.

Methinks I really need to buy a spring mvc book ;-)

Any ideas?

Thanks
Aled

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