Values of @PathVariable and @ModelAttribute overlapping

Question

I have an User object stored in the session with @SessionAttributes. And a straight-forward method decorated with @ModelAttribute in o

Answer 1

use @SessionAttribute

@RequestMapping(value = "/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String showItem(@PathVariable("id") Long id, @SessionAttribute("user") User user,
            Model uiModel) {
   ...    
}

Answer 2

How about this approach -

@RequestMapping(value = "/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String showItem(@PathVariable("id") Long id,
            Model uiModel) {
       User user = (User)uiModel.asMap().get("user");
   ...    
}