Spring 3 RequestMapping: Get path value

Question

Non-matched part of the URL is exposed as a request attribute named HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE:

@RequestMapping("/{id}/**")
public void foo(@PathVariable("id") int id, HttpServletRequest request) {
    String restOfTheUrl = (String) request.getAttribute(
        HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE);
    ...
}

Just found that issue corresponding to my problem. Using HandlerMapping constants I was able to wrote a small utility for that purpose:

/**
 * Extract path from a controller mapping. /controllerUrl/** => return matched **
 * @param request incoming request.
 * @return extracted path
 */
public static String extractPathFromPattern(final HttpServletRequest request){


    String path = (String) request.getAttribute(
            HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE);
    String bestMatchPattern = (String ) request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE);

    AntPathMatcher apm = new AntPathMatcher();
    String finalPath = apm.extractPathWithinPattern(bestMatchPattern, path);

    return finalPath;

}

This has been here quite a while but posting this. Might be useful for someone.

@RequestMapping( "/{id}/**" )
public void foo( @PathVariable String id, HttpServletRequest request ) {
    String urlTail = new AntPathMatcher()
            .extractPathWithinPattern( "/{id}/**", request.getRequestURI() );
}

Building upon Fabien Kruba's already excellent answer, I thought it would be nice if the ** portion of the URL could be given as a parameter to the controller method via an annotation, in a way which was similar to @RequestParam and @PathVariable, rather than always using a utility method which explicitly required the HttpServletRequest. So here's an example of how that might be implemented. Hopefully someone finds it useful.

Create the annotation, along with the argument resolver:

@Target(ElementType.PARAMETER)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
public @interface WildcardParam {

    class Resolver implements HandlerMethodArgumentResolver {

        @Override
        public boolean supportsParameter(MethodParameter methodParameter) {
            return methodParameter.getParameterAnnotation(WildcardParam.class) != null;
        }

        @Override
        public Object resolveArgument(MethodParameter methodParameter, ModelAndViewContainer modelAndViewContainer, NativeWebRequest nativeWebRequest, WebDataBinderFactory webDataBinderFactory) throws Exception {
            HttpServletRequest request = nativeWebRequest.getNativeRequest(HttpServletRequest.class);
            return request == null ? null : new AntPathMatcher().extractPathWithinPattern(
                    (String) request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE),
                    (String) request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE));
        }

    }

}

Register the method argument resolver:

@Configuration
public class WebMvcConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {

    @Override
    public void addArgumentResolvers(List<HandlerMethodArgumentResolver> resolvers) {
        resolvers.add(new WildcardParam.Resolver());
    }

}

Use the annotation in your controller handler methods to have easy access to the ** portion of the URL:

@RestController
public class SomeController {

    @GetMapping("/**")
    public void someHandlerMethod(@WildcardParam String wildcardParam) {
        // use wildcardParam here...
    }

}

You need to use built-in pathMatcher:

@RequestMapping("/{id}/**")
public void test(HttpServletRequest request, @PathVariable long id) throws Exception {
    ResourceUrlProvider urlProvider = (ResourceUrlProvider) request
            .getAttribute(ResourceUrlProvider.class.getCanonicalName());
    String restOfUrl = urlProvider.getPathMatcher().extractPathWithinPattern(
            String.valueOf(request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE)),
            String.valueOf(request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE)));

I have used the Tuckey URLRewriteFilter to handle path elements that contain '/' characters, as I don't think Spring 3 MVC supports them yet.

http://www.tuckey.org/

You put this filter in to your app, and provide an XML config file. In that file you provide rewrite rules, which you can use to translate path elements containing '/' characters into request parameters that Spring MVC can deal with properly using @RequestParam.

WEB-INF/web.xml:

<filter>
  <filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
  <filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<!-- map to /* -->

WEB-INF/urlrewrite.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE urlrewrite
    PUBLIC "-//tuckey.org//DTD UrlRewrite 3.0//EN"
    "http://tuckey.org/res/dtds/urlrewrite3.0.dtd">
<urlrewrite>
  <rule>
    <from>^/(.*)/(.*)$</from>
    <to last="true">/$1?restOfTheUrl=$2</to>
</urlrewrite>

Controller method:

@RequestMapping("/{id}")
public void handler(@PathVariable("id") int id, @RequestParam("restOfTheUrl") String pathToFile) {
  ...
}

Yes the restOfTheUrl is not returning only required value but we can get the value by using UriTemplate matching.

I have solved the problem, so here the working solution for the problem:

@RequestMapping("/{id}/**")
public void foo(@PathVariable("id") int id, HttpServletRequest request) {
String restOfTheUrl = (String) request.getAttribute(
    HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE);
    /*We can use UriTemplate to map the restOfTheUrl*/
    UriTemplate template = new UriTemplate("/{id}/{value}");        
    boolean isTemplateMatched = template.matches(restOfTheUrl);
    if(isTemplateMatched) {
        Map<String, String> matchTemplate = new HashMap<String, String>();
        matchTemplate = template.match(restOfTheUrl);
        String value = matchTemplate.get("value");
       /*variable `value` will contain the required detail.*/
    }
}