Match the “Rest of the URL” using Spring 3 RequestMapping Annotation [duplicate]

Answer 1

For the above try:

@RequestMapping(value="{appname}/{path1}/{path2}/{remainder:.+}")

The default behavior of Spring to stop matching on '.' in urls is not very intuitive. I don't think period character has any special meaning in the context of the path(as opposed to say '/', ';' or '?').

Answer 2

Funny thing: I just came across the need to do this too. Here's how I solved it:

@RequestMapping(value = {"/someChildUrlIfYouWant/**"}

The "**" here says 'grab anything at any sub-path of what's to the left of me.' If you want the path it actually matched to get to this method, you can use:

request.getAttribute( HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE )

You will get /someChildUrlIfYouWant/the/full/path/to/whatever.html so if you just want the variable child path, you'll have to trim the front part of the string.

Make sense?