Question

I have a spring app with one servlet that has url-mapping of *.html. Everything is working great with my annotated controllers.

My question is how can I setup my servlet and annotated mappings to mimic the urls like StackOverflow?

I would like to go to a no extension url and if possible add a description after the final /.

Example:

I currently have:

/appName/parm1/parm2/pageName.html

I would like to have

/appName/parm1/parm2/pageName/description

Is this possible and what do I need to do to my annotated controllers?

Thanks

Answer 1

You should be able to map the dispatcher servlet to /* or something like that, and then use @PathVariables to get the needed information from the URI. Have a look at http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html and search for @PathVariable. Here’s an example from that page

@RequestMapping(value="/owners/{ownerId}/pets/{petId}", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String findPet(@PathVariable String ownerId, @PathVariable String petId, Model model) {
  Owner owner = ownerService.findOwner(ownerId);  
  Pet pet = owner.getPet(petId);  
  model.addAttribute("pet", pet);  
  return "displayPet"; 
}

which reads the ownerId and the petId from the request uri.