Access to wildcard @RequestMapping path within controller

[thomasvdv]

Hi,

I need to know the value of the wildcard match for a RequestMapping within a controller's method. I realize a PathVariable can be used to access part of the path but I have not found a way to access full wildcard matches.

For example:

@RequestMapping(value = "/cms/*", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public void renderContent() {
 // I want to know what came behind cms. I.e. if the URI is /cms/article/something.html I want to get access to "/article/something.html. If the URI is /cms/image/something.png I need to know the "/image/something.png
}

I could inject the HttpServletRequest but that won't work when the controller is called from within a jsp:include or tiles. Hence, I need a reliable way to access the wildcard value.

The use case for this is a generic content controller that takes whatever URI that comes after /content/ and matches that to a content file that can be located at any folder depth with any file extension.

Thanks!

Thomas

[pgrimard]

Check out URI Templates in the documentation. It should give you what you're after.

[thomasvdv]

None of that works. I can find a way to get to nested paths in the @PathVariable.

You can do something like this:

@RequestMapping("/content")
public class CmsContentController {

@RequestMapping(value = "{cms:.*}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
	public void renderContent(@PathVariable String cms) {

}

When you request /content/something.html, cms will resolve to "something.html"

That's great, but it doesn't work for nested paths.

it looks like you can only get to a single folder in a path but never an entire wildcard match for a subdirectory tree (i.e. **/*.*)