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Spring MVC - URI matching, using setUseTrailingSlashMatch() method of RequestMappingHandlerMapping

[Last Updated: Mar 7, 2018]

In this example, we will understand the effect of using method setUseTrailingSlashMatch() of RequestMappingHandlerMapping. This setting specifies whether to match the URLs irrespective of the presence of a trailing slash. If enabled a handler method mapped to "/users" also matches to the uri "/users/" (other than "/user"). The default value is true.

Example

A controller

@Controller
public class MyController {

  @ResponseBody
  @RequestMapping("/employee")
  public String employeeHandler() {
      return "response from employeeHandler()";
  }
}

Java Config:

First we are going to see the default behavior when setUseTrailingSlashMatch is set to false.

 @Configuration
 @ComponentScan
 @EnableWebMvc
 public class AppConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
 }

To try examples, run embedded tomcat (configured in pom.xml of example project below):

mvn tomcat7:run-war

Output

As seen in above outputs, both paths are mapped to our single handler method employeeHandler()

Let's set setUseTrailingSlashMatch to false.

Setting setUseTrailingSlashMatch=false

Let's configure RequestMappingHandlerMapping with the desired setting:

@Configuration
@ComponentScan
@EnableWebMvc
public class AppConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {

  @Override
  public void configurePathMatch(PathMatchConfigurer configurer) {
      configurer.setUseTrailingSlashMatch(false);
  }
}

Example Project

Dependencies and Technologies Used:

  • spring-webmvc 5.0.4.RELEASE: Spring Web MVC.
  • javax.servlet-api 3.0.1 Java Servlet API
  • JDK 1.8
  • Maven 3.3.9

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