View resolvers include context in path

[adusty]

Hello,
I'm trying to develop a simple MVC app to understand how everything is put together.

I've a problem in the line of this thread:
http://forum.springsource.org/showth...apping-problem

The fact being that depending on url-pattern I use in web.xml while the correct method of the controller is called correctly, the view that is looked for changes, addind in some cases the context path to it.

For example, with this patterns:

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

Everything works fine, and (for example) to a certain request the jsp view used is "/WEB-INF/jsp/test.jsp".
While if I use:

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/dir/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

The view that Spring tries to use becomes: "/mywebapp/WEB-INF/jsp/test.jsp" that of course is wrong.

On the before mentioned thread you can see the error (mine is completely the same):

09:52:26 WARN  org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound[noHandlerFound] - No mapping for [/myspringmvc/WEB-INF/view/index.jsp] in DispatcherServlet with name 'webapp'

Any hint on why this strange behavior?

I know that as a workaround I can map / to the dispatcher, but I really would like to understand the issue, it seems like a bug to me.

[Marten Deinum]

Post your configuration... Never had this problem (neither with *.html or /app/* mappings). ...

[adusty]

Here are the relevant bits.

dispatcher controller:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
       ">

  <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
        p:viewClass="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"
        p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/" p:suffix=".jsp" />

  <bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
    <property name="mappings">
      <props>
        <prop key="/index.htm">indexController</prop>
      </props>
    </property>
  </bean>
    
  <bean name="indexController"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ParameterizableViewController"
        p:viewName="index" />
    
</beans>

applicationContext:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans
  xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
  xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
  xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd
">

  <context:annotation-config />
  <context:component-scan base-package="it.nibbles.airjb.controllers"/>
  <mvc:annotation-driven/>

  <bean id="localeResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.AcceptHeaderLocaleResolver" />
  <bean id="messageSource" class="it.nibbles.airjb.i18n.JdbcMessageSource" p:codePrefix=":airjb:"
        p:autocreateUnknownKeys="true" />
  
</beans>

and web.xml:

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

(just one dispatcher)
Using instead the pattern:
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
exibits the beforementioned behavior, rendering impossible for me to render views (no view is ever found)

[adusty]

Would a complete example (a project from scratch, zipped) help for having help on the subject...?