AJAX - Spring Controller - JSP

Question

I want generate AJAX (based on jQuery) request to Spring MVC controller and return Collection with objects to jsp. I have two troubles: 1. AJAX success block doesn't work (something with data type); 2. Don't know how to display this objects to the jsp.

<c:forEach items="${objects}" var="object">
    size : <c:out value="${object.size}" />
</c:forEach>

^ This code doesn't work.

My AJAX request:

    function AJAXItemRequest(name, surname) {
        $.ajax({
            type : "POST",
            dataType: "json",
            url : "/pages/users",
            data : {name: nameValue, surname: surnameValue},
            success : function(data) {
                alert('success');
            }
        });
    }

Spring MVC Controller

@RequestMapping(value = "/users", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public ModelMap userHandler(ModelMap model, HttpServletRequest request, @RequestParam("name") String nameValue, @RequestParam("surname") String surnameValue ) throws Exception {
        Collection<Users> users = findConnectedUsers(name, surname);
        model.addAttribute("objects", users);
    return model;
}

Also, AJAX request works and controller successfully returns model Collection.

Answer 1

This is not working , To use Ajax with Spring you should use respose body and not ModelView

@RequestMapping(value="/searchAlluserByQuery.do", method = RequestMethod.POST,headers="content-type=application/json")
@ResponseBody public List<Object> searchAlluserByQuery(@RequestBody  String query) {

return serachService.getListByqueryContains(query);

}

Don't forget have jackson.jar on your class path and in view layer Jstl not working for ajax! you should use java script frame work such jquery to get Json object