Spring REST not creating _method hidden element - spring-mvc

Question

I used to have it working fine, somehow after some development I realized the HTML element _method is not created automatically on the page thus REST does not work.
Below is my web.xml which contains the HiddenHttpMethodFilter.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
version="2.5">
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml,
/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/*-context.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.security.web.session.HttpSessionEventPublisher</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>trimSpaces</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>HttpMethodFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>HttpMethodFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<error-page>
<error-code>403</error-code>
<location>/errors/403.html</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/errors/404.html</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<error-code>405</error-code>
<location>/errors/405.html</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<error-code>500</error-code>
<location>/errors/500.html</location>
</error-page>
</web-app>
what I have tried
Maven Update Project
Maven Clean > Maven Install
Clear the working directory
UPDATED
Portion of my jsp
<html:form modelAttribute="user" id="user-form" formUrl="/user">
form.tag which translate it to Spring form
<form:form modelAttribute="${modelAttribute}" id="${id}"
action="${processedFormUrl}" class="form-horizontal"
target="${target}" method="post">
<fieldset>
<jsp:doBody />
</fieldset>
</form:form>

Answer 1

HiddenHttpMethodFilter is required only if your form-method is other than post i.e. its PUT/DELETE, in that case spring automatically adds _method hidden field with correct form-method.
In case you want to make a put request change method="put" and spring-form will take care of rest
EDITTED
I looked at spring FormTag source code, and I found the below
if (!isMethodBrowserSupported(getMethod())) {
assertHttpMethod(getMethod());
String inputName = getMethodParameter();
String inputType = "hidden";
tagWriter.startTag(INPUT_TAG);
writeOptionalAttribute(tagWriter, TYPE_ATTRIBUTE, inputType);
writeOptionalAttribute(tagWriter, NAME_ATTRIBUTE, inputName);
writeOptionalAttribute(tagWriter, VALUE_ATTRIBUTE, processFieldValue(inputName, getMethod(), inputType));
tagWriter.endTag();
}
protected boolean isMethodBrowserSupported(String method) {
return ("get".equalsIgnoreCase(method) || "post".equalsIgnoreCase(method));
}
So _method hidden field will be added only if your form method is not get/post.
For your case, when delete button is clicked, you can add a input hidden tag for _method field using jquery before subitting,
var input = $("<input>").attr("type", "hidden").attr("name", "_method").val("DELETE");
$('form#yoorFormID').append(input).submit();