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

//in your xml dispatcher  add this property to your default annotation mapper bean as follow
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping">
    <property name="alwaysUseFullPath" value="true"></property>
</bean>       

Answer 2

If you can edit the address that requests are sent to, simple fix would be to add a trailing slash to them (and also in the @RequestMapping value):

/path/{variable}/

so the mapping would look like:

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

See also Spring MVC @PathVariable with dot (.) is getting truncated.

Answer 3

I just ran into this and the solutions here didn't generally work as I expected.

I suggest using a SpEL expression and multiple mappings, e.g.

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