mvc:annotation-driven and Tuckey

[logixplayer]

hi All,

I was using Tuckey url for url re-writing. This is how it looks:

<rule>
	<from>/</from>
	<to>/pf/welcome</to>
</rule>

and this is how I have my entitymanager set up in web.xml:

	<filter-mapping>
	    <filter-name>OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name>
	     <!-- <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>-->
	    	    <url-pattern>/pf/*</url-pattern>
   		<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
	    
	</filter-mapping>

I would like to take advantage of Spring 3 validations.
In my presentation-context file I added this:
<mvc:annotation-driven />

As soon as I do that I get 404 errors. The mapping is off.

12/Sep/10 21:57:46 DEBUG [http-8080-1] DEBUG (org.springframework.web.servlet.Di
spatcherServlet.getLastModified(DispatcherServlet.java:842)) - DispatcherServlet
 with name 'dispatcher' determining Last-Modified value for [/PublicFountainWAR-
0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/pf/welcome]
12/Sep/10 21:57:46 DEBUG [http-8080-1] DEBUG (org.springframework.web.servlet.Di
spatcherServlet.getLastModified(DispatcherServlet.java:850)) - No handler found
in getLastModified
12/Sep/10 21:57:46 DEBUG [http-8080-1] DEBUG (org.springframework.web.servlet.Di
spatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:690)) - DispatcherServlet with
name 'dispatcher' processing GET request for [/PublicFountainWAR-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/
pf/welcome]
12/Sep/10 21:57:46 WARN  [http-8080-1] WARN (org.springframework.web.servlet.Dis
patcherServlet.noHandlerFound(DispatcherServlet.java:962)) - No mapping found fo
r HTTP request with URI [/PublicFountainWAR-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/pf/welcome] in Dispat
cherServlet with name 'dispatcher'
12/Sep/10 21:57:46 DEBUG [http-8080-1] DEBUG (org.springframework.web.servlet.Fr
ameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:677)) - Successfully complet
ed request
12/Sep/10 21:57:46 DEBUG [http-8080-1] DEBUG (org.springframework.orm.jpa.suppor
t.OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter.j
ava:120)) - Closing JPA EntityManager in OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter
12/Sep/10 21:57:46 DEBUG [http-8080-1] DEBUG (org.springframework.orm.jpa.Entity
ManagerFactoryUtils.closeEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryUtils.java:328)) - Cl
osing JPA EntityManager

my controllers are mapped to key words without the "pf".
e.g. /welcome NOT /pf/welcome

the "pf" was just there to forward it to a sort of virtual path only known to the dispatchservlet for processing...the url's are all independant.

IS there a way to use Tuckey and <mvc:annotation-driven />???

[logixplayer]

guys any clues would help...just wanna add
<mvc:annotation-driven />

to my pre-existing spring mvc 3.0 web app using Tuckey URL filter......


any help would be greatly appreciated!

[logixplayer]

Hi ,

first of all I'm kinda disapointed of the lack of support for this thread...I think since Spring MVC 3 has some new constructs, that its good to disucss this as much as possible seeing that the documentation isn't the best.

Here is what I did to solve this problem.
The conflict started with <mvc:annotation-driven />

The point of this exercise was to use JSR 303 validation which is why I included <mvc:annotation-driven /> to begin with.
I am not sure if this is the best approach or not...personally I would like to stick to conventions and would rather use <mvc:annotation-driven />.
Here is what I did:
1)I commented out <mvc:annotation-driven />
2) I did the following:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
    <property name="webBindingInitializer">
        <bean class="org.springframework.web.bind.support.ConfigurableWebBindingInitializer">
            <property name="validator" ref="validator" />
        </bean>
    </property>
<!--    <property name="messageConverters">-->
<!--        <list>-->
<!--           <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter" />-->
<!--           <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter" />-->
<!--           <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.FormHttpMessageConverter" />-->
<!--           <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.SourceHttpMessageConverter" />-->
<!--        </list>-->
<!--    </property>-->
<property name="order" value="1" />
 </bean>
 
<bean id="validator" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean" />

In this way, I was still able to use Tuckey, along with AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter which I marked as "order 1"...which means that it will run after Tuckey.

The problem was this was defaulting to oder 0 which was over-riding tuckey so my request mappings were not being resolved..

personally I do not understand what I did , I do not know what AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter really does...I just pieced together different things online...

All of this to use the @Validate method on my domain objects which I think is pretty cool as you get instant validations of the entity object.

If any of you know how to make <mvc:annotation-driven /> work with Tuckey, please let me know...I suspect there is some switch you tell <mvc:annotation-driven /> to recognize some other mvc mechanism and to fire with a higher order....

[Enrico Pizzi]

Solution is...don't use Tuckey...Spring web mvc has its own methods to do url rewriting, read the documentation and experiment with the mvc namespace...