URL Pattern match restricting in Spring MVC

[tech.chhajed]

My Spring Web MVC application has the following handler mapping in the Controller.

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = "/something")

When request is sent to

http://www.someURL.com/something

, it works fine and maps to correct controller but,

http://www.someURL.com/something.bak

or

http://www.someURL.com/something.abc

or

http://www.someURL.com/something.abc.deff.xyz

also works!!

I want to restrict this to just http://www.someURL.com/something and not to others.

web.xml defines the mappings as :-

<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>abc</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

Please suggest.

[Marten Deinum]

I suggest a read of the javadocs of the classes you use. Assuming you use Spring 3.1 you should checkout the RequestMappingHandlerMapping configure it and set the useSuffixPatternMatch to false (the default is true).

[tech.chhajed]

Thanks can you please provide some more information as in how to use JavaConfig along with XML config for MVC configuration.

I suggest a read of the javadocs of the classes you use. Assuming you use Spring 3.1 you should checkout the RequestMappingHandlerMapping configure it and set the useSuffixPatternMatch to false (the default is true).