Spring 3 RequestMapping: Get path value

Question

Is there a way to get the complete path value after the requestMapping @PathVariable values have been parsed?

That is: /{id}/{restOfTheUrl} should be able to parse /1/dir1/dir2/file.html into id=1 and restOfTheUrl=/dir1/dir2/file.html

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I have used the Tuckey URLRewriteFilter to handle path elements that contain '/' characters, as I don't think Spring 3 MVC supports them yet.

http://www.tuckey.org/

You put this filter in to your app, and provide an XML config file. In that file you provide rewrite rules, which you can use to translate path elements containing '/' characters into request parameters that Spring MVC can deal with properly using @RequestParam.

WEB-INF/web.xml:

<filter>
  <filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
  <filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<!-- map to /* -->

WEB-INF/urlrewrite.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE urlrewrite
    PUBLIC "-//tuckey.org//DTD UrlRewrite 3.0//EN"
    "http://tuckey.org/res/dtds/urlrewrite3.0.dtd">
<urlrewrite>
  <rule>
    <from>^/(.*)/(.*)$</from>
    <to last="true">/$1?restOfTheUrl=$2</to>
</urlrewrite>

Controller method:

@RequestMapping("/{id}")
public void handler(@PathVariable("id") int id, @RequestParam("restOfTheUrl") String pathToFile) {
  ...
}

Answer 2

Non-matched part of the URL is exposed as a request attribute named HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE:

@RequestMapping("/{id}/**")
public void foo(@PathVariable("id") int id, HttpServletRequest request) {
    String restOfTheUrl = (String) request.getAttribute(
        HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE);
    ...
}

Answer 3

This has been here quite a while but posting this. Might be useful for someone.

@RequestMapping( "/{id}/**" )
public void foo( @PathVariable String id, HttpServletRequest request ) {
    String urlTail = new AntPathMatcher()
            .extractPathWithinPattern( "/{id}/**", request.getRequestURI() );
}

Answer 4

You need to use built-in pathMatcher:

@RequestMapping("/{id}/**")
public void test(HttpServletRequest request, @PathVariable long id) throws Exception {
    ResourceUrlProvider urlProvider = (ResourceUrlProvider) request
            .getAttribute(ResourceUrlProvider.class.getCanonicalName());
    String restOfUrl = urlProvider.getPathMatcher().extractPathWithinPattern(
            String.valueOf(request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE)),
            String.valueOf(request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE)));

Answer 5

private final static String MAPPING = "/foo/*";

@RequestMapping(value = MAPPING, method = RequestMethod.GET)
public @ResponseBody void foo(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
    final String mapping = getMapping("foo").replace("*", ""); 
    final String path = (String) request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE);
    final String restOfPath = url.replace(mapping, "");
    System.out.println(restOfPath);
}

private String getMapping(String methodName) {
    Method methods[] = this.getClass().getMethods();
    for (int i = 0; i < methods.length; i++) {
        if (methods[i].getName() == methodName) {
            String mapping[] = methods[i].getAnnotation(RequestMapping.class).value();
            if (mapping.length > 0) {
                return mapping[mapping.length - 1];
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}

Answer 6

Yes the restOfTheUrl is not returning only required value but we can get the value by using UriTemplate matching.

I have solved the problem, so here the working solution for the problem:

@RequestMapping("/{id}/**")
public void foo(@PathVariable("id") int id, HttpServletRequest request) {
String restOfTheUrl = (String) request.getAttribute(
    HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE);
    /*We can use UriTemplate to map the restOfTheUrl*/
    UriTemplate template = new UriTemplate("/{id}/{value}");        
    boolean isTemplateMatched = template.matches(restOfTheUrl);
    if(isTemplateMatched) {
        Map<String, String> matchTemplate = new HashMap<String, String>();
        matchTemplate = template.match(restOfTheUrl);
        String value = matchTemplate.get("value");
       /*variable `value` will contain the required detail.*/
    }
}