In my experience, GET /users/{id} GET /users/email/{email} is the most common approach. I would also expect the methods to return a 404 Not Found if a user doesn’t exist with the provided id or email. I wouldn’t be surprised to see GET /users/id/{id}, either (though in my opinion, it is redundant). Comments on the other … Read more
You can use * as prefix or suffix wildcard. In your case, you can use /myServlet/* for a folder mapping. @WebServlet(“/myServlet/*”) The path info (the part after the mapping in the URL) is in the servlet by the way available as: String pathInfo = request.getPathInfo(); This would in case of myapp/myServlet/other return /other. See also: … Read more
This is a path pattern that is used in Apache Ant library. Spring team implements it and uses it throughout the framework. Back to your problem. According to the Javadoc for AntPathMatcher, it only has 3 rules: ? matches one character * matches zero or more characters ** matches zero or more ‘directories’ in a … Read more
This should be useful to you. From the Java™ Servlet Specification Version 3.1 (JSR 340) Chapter 12. Mapping Requests to Servlets 12.2 Specification of Mappings In the Web application deployment descriptor, the following syntax is used to define mappings: A string beginning with a / character and ending with a /* suffix is used for … Read more
url-pattern is used in web.xml to map your servlet to specific URL. Please see below xml code, similar code you may find in your web.xml configuration file. <servlet> <servlet-name>AddPhotoServlet</servlet-name> //servlet name <servlet-class>upload.AddPhotoServlet</servlet-class> //servlet class </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>AddPhotoServlet</servlet-name> //servlet name <url-pattern>/AddPhotoServlet</url-pattern> //how it should appear </servlet-mapping> If you change url-pattern of AddPhotoServlet from /AddPhotoServlet to /MyUrl. … Read more
The .jsf extension is where the FacesServlet is during the JSF 1.2 period often mapped on in the web.xml. <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>facesServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> The .xhtml extension is of the actual Facelets file as you’ve physically placed in the webcontent of your webapp, e.g. Webapp/WebContent/page.xhtml. If you invoke this page with the .jsf extension, e.g. http://localhost:8080/webapp/page.jsf … Read more
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> The /* on a servlet overrides all other servlets, including all servlets provided by the servletcontainer such as the default servlet and the JSP servlet. Whatever request you fire, it will end up in that servlet. This is thus a bad URL pattern for servlets. Usually, you’d like to use /* on a Filter … Read more