forms - In Spring-mvc the attribute names in view have to always match the property names in model?

Question

In the http request body, the way password string is passed is "pass=1111", however in the bean the way password is defined is ''private String password". Is there a way I can use annotation to handle the difference or I have to always match names?

The Http request is like this

curl -H "Accept:text/html" -H "Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d 'email=test%40gmail.com&pass=1111&passconfirm=1111&name=x+y' "http://localhost:8080/project/register"

Handler method is

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST, headers = "content-type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
public String register(@ModelAttribute UserAccountBean account) ...

UserAccountBean is

public  class UserAccountBean2 {
    @NotNull
    @Size(min = 1, max = 25)
    private String name;

    @NotNull
    @Size(min = 4, max = 8)
    private String password;

    @NotNull
    private String email;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getPassword()
    {
        return password;
    }

    public void setPassword(String password)
    {
        this.password = password;
    }

    public String toString() {
        return new ToStringCreator(this).append("name", name).append("password", password).toString();
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }
}

Answer 1

You can achieve it with this:

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST, headers = "content-type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
public String register(@ModelAttribute("userAccountBean") UserAccountBean account) ...

@ModelAttribute("userAccountBean")
public UserAccountBean getUserAccountBean(HttpServletRequest req) {
  UserAccountBean uab = new UserAccountBean();
  uab.setPassword(req.getParameter("pass"));
  return uab;
}