Comments on: RESTful URLs with Spring MVC and UrlRewriteFilter

By: Thas

Thas — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:56:31 +0000

HI, I am using struts2 with spring & tiles

I have the following rule

^/test5\.html$
/welcome.action

but getting HTTP Status 404

however if I change the rule to

^/test5\.html$
/star_test.jsp

it works…
can you please tell me what I am missing here

thanks alot

By: Mike Croteau

Mike Croteau — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:25:52 +0000

Well, got it working the way I needed. I was messing up on my in that I wasnt writing correct regular expressions. Here is an example of my working code with 1 parameter

orderportal/home\?switchprofile\=mike$
op_urlrewrite/orderportal/custom/CUSTOM_PAGE_3?switchprofile=steph

Thanks

By: Mike Croteau

Mike Croteau — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:08:08 +0000

Hey Carl, I am trying to get the urlrewrite filter to work with 1 parameter… I am getting it to work with simple urls such as

The rule means that requests to /test/status/ will be redirected to /rewrite-status
the url will be rewritten.

orderportal/custom/CUSTOM_PAGE_5
orderportal/custom/CUSTOM_PAGE_3

but having problems when trying to filter with a parameter in the url like:

The rule means that requests to /test/status/ will be redirected to /rewrite-status
the url will be rewritten.

^/orderportal/home?switchprofile=$mike
orderportal/custom/CUSTOM_PAGE_4

I have tried lots of variations on the parameter like ?switchprofile={encode:mike}, ?switchprofile=mike$, ?switchprofile=$mike. No luck.

Any direction would be most helpful. Posted on UrlRewrite google group as well.

Btw, ironic I landed on your site.

Mike

By: Tjerk

Tjerk — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:54:36 +0000

Carl,

I like your solution, since it’s nicely layered.
Small point of improvement however:

…
REST style URL like
http://localhost:8080/sprocket/1234/edit
…

Should be
http://localhost:8080/sprocket/1234/

Since actions like ‘edit’ should not be included in the URL but should be purely declared via HTTP methods in the request header like ‘GET/PUT/POST/DELETE’. The ‘edit’ action on your controller should then be targeted by using the PUT method in the header of the request. The @RequestMapping annotation let’s you do this.
This way you connect the action based Spring MVC way with the resource based REST way.

Spring 3 has better support for this, but since you mention, it won’t be available for some time.

Kind regards,
Tjerk

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By: Carl Sziebert

Carl Sziebert — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:41:34 +0000

rs:

Thanks for the heads up. I’ve purged the .svn files from the downloads.

By: rs

rs — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:40:02 +0000

Good, clear write up – I like it

Just one side note – don’t include them ‘.svn’ folders in your zip file

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By: Carl Sziebert

Carl Sziebert — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:55:55 +0000

I’ve updated the sample application to use Ivy to manage the dependencies for the project. Going forward, you’ll need to compile and deploy the application yourselves. This should remedy the issues people were having when running it. As an added benefit, the sample application download is significantly smaller now that the JARs are retrieved automagically by Ivy.

By: Carl Sziebert

Carl Sziebert — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:42:52 +0000

@mike:

What are the errors you are seeing when you try to run the code? I compiled it using JDK6 and ran it in Tomcat 6 on my MacBook Pro.