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Global Model Attributes

Global Model Attributes

Let's have some insight into model attributes that are common to each method.

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Controller specific

If we look at the various methods in UserController, we’ll see that some of the model attributes are added to the model in each method. Let’s look at a single method for reference:

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@GetMapping("/create")
@Secured("ROLE_ADMIN")
public String createUserForm(Model model) {
    model.addAttribute("user", new CreateUserFormData());
    model.addAttribute("genders", List.of(Gender.MALE, Gender.FEMALE, Gender.OTHER));
    model.addAttribute("possibleRoles", List.of(UserRole.values()));
    model.addAttribute("editMode", EditMode.CREATE);
    return "users/edit";
}

The genders and possibleRoles attribute is also added in three other methods of the UserController. We could, of ...