How to use DTO pattern correctly?

Question

Java

Hello. There is a small project on the spring, on the timelif view. I have a question about dto. I'm making a "contact us" form. This form has fields: name, subject, mail, message. So, I don’t have such an entity and I don’t need it, should I create a dto for this? and if I create a dto, then should I do all the appeal to the view through dtohi? Question more at the convention for the project

Answer 1

In this case, it will not be a DTO, but a Value Object, which in Spring WebMVC is marked with the @ModelAttribute annotation.
Using a Value Object instead of a set of query parameters is definitely better and more convenient.
You can read about it here