How to get a path variable that is the remainder of the path in Spring MVC?

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How can I get my last path variable to be the remaining path? I have something like this, but it's not getting hit:

@RequestMapping(value = "{storageId}/{repositoryId}/{path}/**",
                method = RequestMethod.PUT)
@RequestMapping(value = "{storageId}/{repositoryId}/{path}/**", method = RequestMethod.PUT)
public ResponseEntity upload(@PathVariable(name = "storageId") String storageId,
                             @PathVariable(name = "repositoryId") String repositoryId,
                             @PathVariable(name = "path") String path,
                             MultipartFile multipartFile)
        throws ...
{
   ...
}

In Jersey, I could do it easily like this:

@Path("{storageId}/{repositoryId}/{path:.*}")

... but I have to migrate some code over to Spring MVC.

The problem is that if my URL is:

http://localhost:48080/storages/storage0/snapshots/org/foo/bar/metadata/metadata-foo/3.1-SNAPSHOT/metadata-foo-3.1-20161017.182007-1.jar

my path gets truncated to:

metadata/metadata-foo/3.1-SNAPSHOT/metadata-foo-3.1-20161017.182007-1.jar

Which is obviously incorrect, as it should be:

org/foo/bar/metadata/metadata-foo/3.1-SNAPSHOT/metadata-foo-3.1-20161017.182007-1.jar

Any advice would be welcome!

Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/125938/discussion-between-carlspring-and-sotirios-delimanolis). — carlspring, Oct 17 '16 at 16:56
Take some hints form here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3686808/spring-3-requestmapping-get-path-value — Sotirios Delimanolis, Oct 17 '16 at 17:17
@SotiriosDelimanolis: Any thoughts on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40095340/is-it-possible-to-use-spring-mvc-with-jersey-annotations/ ? — carlspring, Oct 17 '16 at 21:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 28 '21 at 14:59

It's easy with the new(ish) matching algorithms that started to show up in Spring 5. You just use {*foo} as the path pattern.

@RequestMapping(value = "{storageId}/{repositoryId}/{path}/{*rest}",
                method = RequestMethod.PUT)
public ResponseEntity upload(@PathVariable(name = "storageId") String storageId,
                             @PathVariable(name = "repositoryId") String repositoryId,
                             @PathVariable(name = "path") String path,
                             @PathVariable(name = "rest") String rest,
                             MultipartFile multipartFile)
        throws ...
{
   ...
}

This works by default in Webflux. With MVC you have to switch on the PathPattern matcher with spring.mvc.pathmatch.matching-strategy=path_pattern_parser. I understand this will be the default in Spring Boot 2.6.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 17 '16 at 21:25

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 @RequestMapping(value = "{storageId}/{repositoryId}/{path}/**",
                 method = RequestMethod.PUT)
 public ResponseEntity upload(@PathVariable(name = "storageId") String storageId,
                              @PathVariable(name = "repositoryId") String repositoryId,MultipartFile multipartFile,HttpServletRequest request)
            throws ...
    {
        String restOfTheUrl = (String) request.getAttribute(
        HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE);
    }

edited Oct 17 '16 at 21:25

carlspring

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answered Oct 17 '16 at 17:55

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Could try to print all three variables and add the examples? I'm afraid this doesn't work for me. Also, is this really the way it's done in Spring MVC? – carlspring Oct 17 '16 at 20:52
Yes, this is really that way: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3686808/spring-3-requestmapping-get-path-value?noredirect=1&lq=1 – MariuszS Aug 17 '17 at 07:35

How to get a path variable that is the remainder of the path in Spring MVC?

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