SPRING MVC

Question 1

What are three things that an MVC controller uses and how is it annotated?

Answer 1

Model, View and a @Controlller

Question 2

How are methods written in the @Controller?

Annotation, returns etc.

Answer 2

Methods are mapped to Http-requests eg. @GetMapping(“/”)
And always selects a view by returning the name of the view.
eg. return “book”;

Could also possibly build a model with data passed on to the View

Question 3

What is a Model and what does the it do?

Answer 3

The communication vessel between the Controller and the View

Holds data that can be displayed in the View

Question 4

Where does the model get its data?

Answer 4

In the Controller Method-body

Question 5

What is a View?

Answer 5

Template for the web page that is returned to the client (web browser)

Question 6

What does a View “do”?

Answer 6

Gets access to the Model to be able to display data from the Model in the
generated web page

Question 7

How do you display data from the model?

public String test (Model model)
model.addAttribute(“name”, value);
return “names”;

Answer 7

•Display data from the Model:

<h1></h1>

•Repetitive statement (iterate over a list):

<li>
•Conditional statement (will only display the tag if condition is true):
<h1></h1></li>