Handling forward slashes spring mvc rest

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I have a rest controller setup like below

@RequestMapping(value = {"getDataFromSpaceForType/{gridName}/{spaceName}/{dataType}/{fieldNames}/{criteria}"}, method = GET, produces = "application/json")
    public EntriesForTypeName getDataFromSpaceForType(@PathVariable Map<String, String> dataRequestVariables) throws Exception {

The last field criteria can contain multiple forward slashes. I am unable to handle such scenario. It breaks with 404 error

Also i dont know how many slashes might come, so it becomes impossible to create multiple methods.

Possible duplicate of [Spring 3 RequestMapping: Get path value](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3686808/spring-3-requestmapping-get-path-value) — Daniel Olszewski, Nov 21 '16 at 11:06
@DanielOlszewski i took a look at it, but seems the accepted answer doesnot works with spring boot — Ambuj Jauhari, Nov 21 '16 at 11:15
what value do you get when using request.getAttribute( HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE) — kuhajeyan, Nov 21 '16 at 12:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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If you know that your URL may contain slashes, all you have to do is to encode the URL before you send/use it.

If your front-end is angularJS then you can do it like this:

How to generate url encoded anchor links with AngularJS?

Or if you use jquery then:

URL Encode a string in jQuery for an AJAX request

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Nov 21 '16 at 14:37

Moshe Arad

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I tried encoding the url to something like this, but it didnt work. encodeURIComponent('/rest/query/getDataFromSpaceForType/local/privatespace/verifiedbill/feedmap/CalculatedMeasure=/bet/local/MXR/20160505/EOD_UK_IR_A2_20160505_1.txt) – Ambuj Jauhari Nov 23 '16 at 16:02

Handling forward slashes spring mvc rest

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