What is the preferred way to specify an HTTP “Location” Response Header in Spring MVC 3?

Question

What is the preferred way to specify an HTTP \"Location\" Response Header in Spring MVC 3?

As far as I can tell, Spring will only provide a \"Location\" in response

Answer 1

The following example is from spring tutorial:

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
ResponseEntity add(@PathVariable String userId, @RequestBody Bookmark input) {
    this.validateUser(userId);

    return this.accountRepository
            .findByUsername(userId)
            .map(account -> {
                Bookmark result = bookmarkRepository.save(new Bookmark(account,
                        input.uri, input.description));

                URI location = ServletUriComponentsBuilder
                    .fromCurrentRequest().path("/{id}")
                    .buildAndExpand(result.getId()).toUri();

                return ResponseEntity.created(location).build();
            })
            .orElse(ResponseEntity.noContent().build());

}

Take note that the following will compute the context path (URI) for you avoiding code duplication and making your application more portable:

ServletUriComponentsBuilder
                    .fromCurrentRequest().path("/{id}")