Spring MVC: How to get view-name in JSP?

Question

Is a way to access view name in JSP (profile in example below) or i need to add this name to model ?

@RequestMapping(value="/user/account", method=RequestMethod.GET)
    return "profile";
}

Answer 1

I ran into this same problem recently. There could be an official way to solve this problem, but I couldn't find it. My solution was to create an interceptor to place the view name into the model.

My interceptor is very simple:

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.HandlerInterceptorAdapter;

public class ViewNameInModelInterceptor extends HandlerInterceptorAdapter {

    @Override
    public void postHandle(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Object handler,
            ModelAndView modelAndView) throws Exception {

        if (modelAndView != null) {
            modelAndView.addObject("springViewName", modelAndView.getViewName());
        }
        super.postHandle(request, response, handler, modelAndView);
    }

}

And registering it in the spring config, is also pretty simple (using the namespace configuration):

<mvc:interceptors>
    <beans:bean class="ViewNameInModelInterceptor" />
</mvc:interceptors>

Answer 2

${requestScope['javax.servlet.forward.servlet_path']}