Optional path variables in Spring-MVC RequestMapping URITemplate

Question

I have the following mapping:

@RequestMapping(value = \"/{first}/**/{last}\", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String test(@PathVariable(\"first\") String firs         


        

Answer 1

Can't be done as far as I know. Just as you stated, the regular expression is being applied to the path element after splitting up the path at each slash, so the regular expression can never match a '/'.

You could manually inspect the url and parse it yourself from the request object.