URL Pattern Restricting in SPRING MVC

Question

My Spring Web MVC application has the following handler mapping in the Controller.

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = "/something")

When request is sent to

http://www.someURL.com/something

, it works fine and maps to correct controller but,

http://www.someURL.com/something.bak or http://www.someURL.com/something.abc or http://www.someURL.com/something.abc.deff.xyz also works!!

I want to restrict this to just http://www.someURL.com/something and not to others.

web.xml defines the mappings as :-

<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>abc</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

Please suggest.

Exertion

Answer 1

You can use the useDefaultSuffixPattern property.

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping">
    <property name="useDefaultSuffixPattern" value="false" />
</bean>

Tintometer

Hey This works thanks.But need to remove <mvc:annotation-driven> from servelt mapping xml. – Exertion

Answer 2

In addition to above, refer to documentation below: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/org/springframework/web/servlet/mvc/annotation/DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping.html

Method: setUseDefaultSuffixPattern()

Also go through similar queries asked below: How to change Spring MVC's behavior in handling url 'dot' character

Closefitting

Looks like MVC Annotation Driven and bean method does not work together. we have to remove MVC Annotation Driven for other to work. – Closefitting