@Path and regular expression (Jersey/REST)

Question

I'm using Jersey in a REST project and I'm needing to use regular expression.

Digging about it is simple like:

@Path("/resources") public class MyResource {     @GET    @Path("{subResources:.*}")    public String get(@PathParam("subResources") String subResources) {...} } 

But, doing like this, the method is getting the request only if I passes 1 param, example:

GET: .../resources/firstSubResource

If I use more then 1 parameter the method is not getting the request, example:

GET: .../resources/firstSubResource/seccondSubResource/thirdSubResource

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I'm only capable of using regex if in my @Path contains a variable or text value, example:

@Path("{SubResource1}/{subResources:.*}") 

Or

@Path("/hardCodeString/{subResources:.*}") 

Today I could run with this solution of a variable, but is not oK for my perspective.

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My web.xml

(...)     <servlet>         <servlet-name>Jersey Spring Web Application</servlet-name>         <servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.spring.container.servlet.SpringServlet</servlet-class>         <init-param>             <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>             <param-value>com.myproject.rest</param-value>         </init-param>         <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>     </servlet>     <servlet-mapping>         <servlet-name>Jersey Spring Web Application</servlet-name>         <url-pattern>/1.0/*</url-pattern>     </servlet-mapping> (...) 

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Question

• Does anyone have worked with something related?
• I'm doing something wrong?
• I think that this could be a bug, when working with more then one @Path, one in the Class and other in the Method.
• Any tips is appreciated!

Regards

Answer 1

Can you try using regular expression as given in Overview of JAX-RS 1.1

Code snippet would look as below for your case

@Path("resources/") public class MyResource {     @GET    @Path("{subResources: [a-zA-Z0-9_/]+}")    public String get(@PathParam("subResources") String subResources) {...} } 

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I know this is a really old question, but I just came across it whilst trying looking for the solution for myself. Im trying to accept s3 style filenames, eg /folder/whatever/blah/.../image.jpg that could be of any conceivable length and contain many /s.

Anyway your own solution:

@Path("/hardCodeString/{subResources:.*}") 

Gave me an idea... turns out this works:

@Path("/{subResources:.*}") 

notice the initial /. Now maybe in three years this is something that they've fixed or whatever, but I hope this helps someone as this page seems to be the only place that mentions this predicament.