io.beanmapper.spring.web

Annotation Type MergedForm

@Target(value=PARAMETER)
 @Retention(value=RUNTIME)
public @interface MergedForm

Capable of reading an input form and mapping this into an existing/new entity. The entity is declared as parameter in our handler mapping method.

Since:

Nov 15, 2015

Required Element Summary

Required Elements

Modifier and Type	Required Element and Description
Class<?>	value Type of input form.

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
String	mergeId Entity identifier variable in our path mapping.
Class<?>	mergePairClass Class types of the before-/afterMerge instances maintained in MergePair
String	multiPart The name of the request part in the multipart form
boolean	patch When patch, we only map the provided properties from our input form to the entity.

Element Detail

value

public abstract Class<?> value

Type of input form.

Returns:

the input form class

patch

public abstract boolean patch

When patch, we only map the provided properties from our input form to the entity.

Returns:

the patch

Default:

false

mergeId

public abstract String mergeId

Entity identifier variable in our path mapping.

Returns:

the identifier variable

Default:

""

mergePairClass

public abstract Class<?> mergePairClass

Class types of the before-/afterMerge instances maintained in MergePair

Default:

java.lang.Object.class

multiPart

public abstract String multiPart

The name of the request part in the multipart form

Returns:

the name of the request part in the multipart form

Default:

""