Spring MVC Ajax Request to Refresh Dynamic Table

I currently have a spring mvc app that gets a list of users from a database and displays their information in a table using JSP to basically loop through each object in the list and create a table row for them.

Each user has an expiry date attribute as part of their record in the database. What I want to achieve is basically a button that when toggled shows or hides all users that have expired (i.e. their expiry date is less than today's date).

For this I am trying to use AJAX calls to my controller to fetch me all users expired or not OR only users that haven't expired depending on how the button is toggled.

What I would like help on is the best way to achieve this as I can think of a few nasty ways of doing it like having a separate page and refreshing but I am confused on a few things.

Should I just ditch the JSP looping through to make the table and make a method in JavaScript that creates that table when given the data? If so how do I get the data from the controller to JavaScript, can an AJAX call to a controller return me a list of my user objects?

My best guess is that instead of adding a list of objects to a model and letting JSP do the work, that I instead return a JSON with the data and use JavaScript to build the table. I can then call an update method to re-build the table.