Best way to deliver content for HTML/Mobile/Json

[mschipperheyn]

Hi,

I'm just wondering what the best way would be to organize content delivery in a scenario where we have
* An HTML website
* A mobile website
* A PhoneGap app that supports HTML pushState and works of json

The important thing for me is to have a flexible url structure and minimal coding to support all options. I was thinking something like this

/**
 * Displays a normal HTML page
 */
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/path")
public class StuffController{

    @Inject
    ItemManager itemMgr;

    public void insertCommonContent(ModelMap model){
        model.addAttribute("items", itemMgr.getItems());
    }

    @RequestMapping("/stuff", method=RequestMethod.GET)
    public String getStuff(ModelMap model){
        insertCommonContent(model);
        model.addAttribute("pageTitle", "Hello there");
        model.addAttribute("specialOffers", getSpecialOffers());
    }
}

/**
 * Returns json
 */
@Controller
public class JsonStuffController extends StuffController{

    @RequestMapping("/stuff.json", method=RequestMethod.GET)
    public @ResponseBody Map<String,Object> getStuff(ModelMap model){
        Map<String,Object> resp = new HashMap<String,Object>();
        resp.add("items", itemMgr.getItems());
        return resp;
    }

}

/**
 * Displays an HTML page optimized for mobile
 */
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/path/mobile")
public class MobileStuffController extends StuffController{

    @RequestMapping("/stuff", method=RequestMethod.GET)
    public String getStuff(ModelMap model){
        insertCommonContent(model);
    }

} 

Any suggestions?

Marc

[dr_pompeii]

Your code has sense, it work? Because you are working according to the URL (@RequestMapping).

Other option I think is about a special value in the Header of the request (Check Spring Reference documentation for more details)

BTW consider to include the @Override too