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

Here is how I did it. You can see how I convert the requestedURI to a filesystem path (what this SO question is about). Bonus: and also how to respond with the file.

@RequestMapping(value = "/file/{userId}/**", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public void serveFile(@PathVariable("userId") long userId, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
    assert request != null;
    assert response != null;

    // requestURL:  http://192.168.1.3:8080/file/54/documents/tutorial.pdf
    // requestURI:  /file/54/documents/tutorial.pdf
    // servletPath: /file/54/documents/tutorial.pdf
    // logger.debug("requestURL: " + request.getRequestURL());
    // logger.debug("requestURI: " + request.getRequestURI());
    // logger.debug("servletPath: " + request.getServletPath());

    String requestURI = request.getRequestURI();
    String relativePath = requestURI.replaceFirst("^/file/", "");

    Path path = Paths.get("/user_files").resolve(relativePath);
    try {
        InputStream is = new FileInputStream(path.toFile());  
        org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.copy(is, response.getOutputStream());
        response.flushBuffer();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        logger.error("Error writing file to output stream. Path: '" + path + "', requestURI: '" + requestURI + "'");
        throw new RuntimeException("IOError writing file to output stream");
    }
}

Answer 2

Just found that issue corresponding to my problem. Using HandlerMapping constants I was able to wrote a small utility for that purpose:

/**
 * Extract path from a controller mapping. /controllerUrl/** => return matched **
 * @param request incoming request.
 * @return extracted path
 */
public static String extractPathFromPattern(final HttpServletRequest request){


    String path = (String) request.getAttribute(
            HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE);
    String bestMatchPattern = (String ) request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE);

    AntPathMatcher apm = new AntPathMatcher();
    String finalPath = apm.extractPathWithinPattern(bestMatchPattern, path);

    return finalPath;

}

Answer 3

I have a similar problem and I resolved in this way:

@RequestMapping(value = "{siteCode}/**/{fileName}.{fileExtension}")
public HttpEntity<byte[]> getResource(@PathVariable String siteCode,
        @PathVariable String fileName, @PathVariable String fileExtension,
        HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse response ) throws IOException {
    String fullPath = req.getPathInfo();
    // Calling http://localhost:8080/SiteXX/images/argentine/flag.jpg
    // fullPath conentent: /SiteXX/images/argentine/flag.jpg
}

Note that req.getPathInfo() will return the complete path (with {siteCode} and {fileName}.{fileExtension}) so you will have to process conveniently.