limit controllers to only accept POST

[ew0kian]

is this the appropriate way to make a controller only accept a POST?

    <bean name="/hello.htm" class="org.web.InventoryController" >
    	<property name="supportedMethods" value="POST" />
    </bean>

also is there a way to make it so that all controllers by default only accept POST so that i dont have to configure this property for each? i'm extending abstractcontroller. thanks.

[Leftwing]

Yes you can extend bean definitions and in such a manner inherrit the property.

<bean name="/hello.htm" class="org.web.InventoryController" >
<property name="supportedMethods" value="POST" />
</bean>

<bean name="/hello2.htm" class="somecontroller" parent="/hello.htm" />

the last bean will have the property supportedMethods set. Be sure that the property is actually supported by the "somecontroller" class.

[ew0kian]

i thought all controllers support that property?

[ew0kian]

nevermind i guess the standard controller class does not have that property. so would it make more sense to just create a new class that extends abstractcontroller and then extend that in all my controller classes instead of extending abstractcontroller, or to just use the method you provided?

[ew0kian]

okay i was wrong, String[] getSupportedMethods() is in the WebContentGenerator superclass which SimpleFormController extends. so im just going to do this:

  <bean id="baseController" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleFormController">
    	<property name="supportedMethods" value="POST" />
    </bean>

and then extend that by using parent="baseController" on all my controllers

[ew0kian]

or should i be doing this instead:

    <bean id="baseController" abstract="true">
    	<property name="supportedMethods" value="POST" />
    </bean>

and then extend by doing

    <bean name="/upload.form" class="package.FileUploadController" parent="baseController">
    
        <property name="commandClass" value="examples.FileUploadBean"/>
        <property name="formView" value="fileuploadform"/>
        <property name="successView" value="confirmation"/>

    </bean>