Question

I’d like to be able to create a page that lists off the mappings that were discovered by controllers annotated with @Controller. I’m doing this for REST services that allows us to easily find the endpoints available to the instance on a page.

So far I’ve manually been doing this, though if it’s possible to create a controller that publishes this in a pleasant format nicely it would be greatly beneficial.

Key information I’m after is

• Endpoint URI
• Method (GET|POST|DELETE|...)
• Params
• Headers

Having access to this information where I could create a JSP view would be ideal.

Answer 1

With Spring 3.1, there is a new feature referred to as “end point documentation”. The only thing I could find was some code in the spring-mvc-31-demo sample app. Refer to the example controller and JSP. Seems pretty straight forward.