How to redirect to the same view using ModelAndview in Spring MVC framework

Question

I have a page with a link. On clicking the link a page opens up in a separate window. This new page has a form. On submitting this form, some operation takes place at the server. The result of which needs to be redirected to the same page. However after the operation on using the following:

return new ModelAndView("newUser");
//This view "newUser" actually maps to the popped up window.

A similar new window again pops up and the message gets displayed on this new page. Any ideas as to why this behavior or how to go about this?

Answer 1

If you open a popup window with a form in it, any submits from here to the server will be handled in the same location, so you will get your response (and any subsequent request-responses) in that popup window.

If I understand this right, you have a page X which opens the popup, you submit in the popup and as a result you want again the content of page X, but in the popup?

If that is the case I thing the behavior is not from Spring but from what you have in the X page. Maybe a JavaScript which gets triggered on load and opens a new popup? Can't really tell without seeing more code.