MVC Java Config - HandlerInterceptor not excluding paths

Question

I have a MVC Java configuration but the HandlerInterceptor is not excluding some patterns.

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Answer 1

I know this was a long while ago but I just stumbled over the same problem. During my search I found the following blog. There it is mentioned that if the interceptors are configured as beans they will be automatically added to the chain. I am now using Spring 4.1.x so there might be a difference but what solved it for me was the following:

1. (I tried to avoid defining them as a spring beans. It didn't help.)
2. I configured the interceptors as spring beans (so I could autowire stuff into them see here)

3. I changed my definition as follows:

   registry.addInterceptor(getMyHandlerInterceptor()) .addPathPatterns("/**") .excludePathPatterns("/user/login");

By putting the addPathPatterns before the excludePathPatterns the behavior of the interceptor suddenly worked fine.