Spring MVC @PathVariable getting truncated

Question

I have a controller that provides RESTful access to information:

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = Routes.BLAH_GET + "/{blahName}")
public ModelAndView getBlah(@PathVariable String blahName, HttpServletRequest request,
                            HttpServletResponse response) {

The problem I am experiencing is that if I hit the server with a path variable with special characters it gets truncated. For example: http://localhost:8080/blah-server/blah/get/blah2010.08.19-02:25:47

The parameter blahName will be blah2010.08

However, the call to request.getRequestURI() contains all the information passed in.

Any idea how to prevent Spring from truncating the @PathVariable?

Answer 1

I also ran into the same issue, and setting the property to false didn't help me either. However, the API says:

Note that paths which include a ".xxx" suffix or end with "/" already will not be transformed using the default suffix pattern in any case.

I tried adding "/end" to my RESTful URL, and the problem went away. I'm not please with the solution, but it did work.

BTW, I don't know what the Spring designers were thinking when they added this "feature" and then turned it on by default. IMHO, it should be removed.

Answer 2

The file extension problem only exists if the parameter is in the last part of the URL. Change

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = Routes.BLAH_GET + "/{blahName}")

to

@RequestMapping(
   method = RequestMethod.GET, value = Routes.BLAH_GET + "/{blahName}/safe")

and all will be well again-

Answer 3

Try a regular expression for the @RequestMapping argument:

RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = Routes.BLAH_GET + "/{blahName:.+}")

Answer 4

This is probably closely related to SPR-6164. Briefly, the framework tries to apply some smarts to the URI interpretation, removing what it thinks are file extensions. This would have the effect of turning blah2010.08.19-02:25:47 into blah2010.08, since it thinks the .19-02:25:47 is a file extension.

As described in the linked issue, you can disable this behaviour by declaring your own DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping bean in the app context, and setting its useDefaultSuffixPattern property to false. This will override the default behaviour, and stop it molesting your data.

Answer 5

Java based configuration solution to prevent truncation (using a not-deprecated class):

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurationSupport;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping;

@Configuration
public class PolRepWebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport {

    @Override
    @Bean
    public RequestMappingHandlerMapping requestMappingHandlerMapping() {
        final RequestMappingHandlerMapping handlerMapping = super
                .requestMappingHandlerMapping();
        // disable the truncation after .
        handlerMapping.setUseSuffixPatternMatch(false);
        // disable the truncation after ;
        handlerMapping.setRemoveSemicolonContent(false);
        return handlerMapping;
    }
}

Source: http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/01/spring-mvc-customizing-requestmappinghandlermapping.html

UPDATE:

I realized having some problems with Spring Boot auto-configuration when I used the approach above (some auto-configuration doesn't get effective).

Instead, I started to use the BeanPostProcessor approach. It seemed to be working better.

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanPostProcessor;

public class MyBeanPostProcessor implements BeanPostProcessor {
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory
            .getLogger(MyBeanPostProcessor.class);

    @Override
    public Object postProcessAfterInitialization(Object bean, String beanName)
            throws BeansException {
        return bean;
    }

    @Override
    public Object postProcessBeforeInitialization(Object bean, String beanName)
            throws BeansException {
        if (bean instanceof RequestMappingHandlerMapping) {
            setRemoveSemicolonContent((RequestMappingHandlerMapping) bean,
                    beanName);
            setUseSuffixPatternMatch((RequestMappingHandlerMapping) bean,
                    beanName);
        }
        return bean;
    }

    private void setRemoveSemicolonContent(
            RequestMappingHandlerMapping requestMappingHandlerMapping,
            String beanName) {
        logger.info(
                "Setting 'RemoveSemicolonContent' on 'RequestMappingHandlerMapping'-bean to false. Bean name: {}",
                beanName);
        requestMappingHandlerMapping.setRemoveSemicolonContent(false);
    }

    private void setUseSuffixPatternMatch(
            RequestMappingHandlerMapping requestMappingHandlerMapping,
            String beanName) {
        logger.info(
                "Setting 'UseSuffixPatternMatch' on 'RequestMappingHandlerMapping'-bean to false. Bean name: {}",
                beanName);
        requestMappingHandlerMapping.setUseSuffixPatternMatch(false);
    }
}

Inspired from: http://ronaldxq.blogspot.com/2014/10/spring-mvc-setting-alwaysusefullpath-on.html

Answer 6

Everything after the last dot is interpreted as file extension and cut off by default.
In your spring config xml you can add DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping and set useDefaultSuffixPattern to false (default is true).

So open your spring xml mvc-config.xml (or however it is called) and add

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping">
    <property name="useDefaultSuffixPattern" value="false" />
</bean>

Now your @PathVariable blahName (and all other, too) should contain the full name including all dots.

EDIT: Here is a link to the spring api