text: @RequestMapping is one of the most widely used Spring MVC annotation.
  org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping annotation is used to map web requests onto specific handler classes and/or handler methods.
  @RequestMapping can be applied to the controller class as well as methods. Today we will look into various usage of this annotation with example and other annotations
  @PathVariable and
  @RequestParam.
  Table of Contents
  Spring @RequestMapping
  - @RequestMapping with Class: We can use it with class definition to create the base URI. For example:
  @Controller @RequestMapping("/home") public class HomeController { }
  Now /home is the URI for which this controller will be used. This concept is very similar to servlet context of a web application.
  - @RequestMapping with Method: We can use it with method to provide the URI pattern for which handler method will be used. For example:
  @RequestMapping(value="/method0") @ResponseBody public String method0(){ return "method0"; }
  Above annotation can also be written as
  @RequestMapping("/method0"). On a side note, I am using @ResponseBody to send the String response for this web request, this is done to keep the example simple. Like I always do, I will use these methods in Spring MVC application and test them with a simple program or script.
  - @RequestMapping with Multiple URI: We can use a single method for handling multiple URIs, for example:
  @RequestMapping(value={"/method1","/method1/second"}) @ResponseBody public String method1(){ return "method1"; }
  If you will look at the source code of RequestMapping annotation, you will see that all of it’s variables are arrays. We can create String array for the URI mappings for the handler method.
  - @RequestMapping with HTTP Method: Sometimes we want to perform different operations based on the HTTP method used, even though request URI remains same. We can use @RequestMapping method variable to narrow down the HTTP methods for which this method will be invoked. For example:
  @RequestMapping(value="/method2", method=RequestMethod.POST) @ResponseBody public String method2(){ return "method2"; } @RequestMapping(value="/method3", method={RequestMethod.POST,RequestMethod.GET}) @ResponseBody public String method3(){ return "method3"; }
  - @RequestMapping with Headers: We can specify the headers that should be present to invoke the handler method. For example:
  @RequestMapping(value="/method4", headers="name=pankaj") @ResponseBody public String method4(){ return "method4"; } @RequestMapping(value="/method5", headers={"name=pankaj", "id=1"}) @ResponseBody public String method5(){ return "method5"; }
  - @RequestMapping with Produces and Consumes: We can use header
  Content-Typeand
  Acceptto find out request contents and what is the mime message it wants in response. For clarity, @RequestMapping provides produces and consumes variables where we can specify the request content-type for which method will be invoked and the response content type. For example:
  @RequestMapping(value="/method6", produces={"application/json","application/xml"}, consumes="text/html") @ResponseBody public String method6(){ return "method6"; }
  Above method can consume message only with Content-Type as text/html and is able to produce messages of type application/json and application/xml.
  - @RequestMapping with @PathVariable: RequestMapping annotation can be used to handle dynamic URIs where one or more of the URI value works as a parameter. We can even specify Regular Expression for URI dynamic parameter to accept only specific type of input. It works with @PathVariable annotation through which we can map the URI variable to one of the method arguments. For example:
  @RequestMapping(value="/method7/{id}") @ResponseBody public String method7(@PathVariable("id") int id){ return "method7 with id="+id; } @RequestMapping(value="/method8/{id:[\\d]+}/{name}") @ResponseBody public String method8(@PathVariable("id") long id, @PathVariable("name") String name){ return "method8 with id= "+id+" and name="+name; }
  - @RequestMapping with @RequestParam for URL parameters: Sometimes we get parameters in the request URL, mostly in GET requests. We can use @RequestMapping with @RequestParam annotation to retrieve the URL parameter and map it to the method argument. For example:
  @RequestMapping(value="/method9") @ResponseBody public String method9(@RequestParam("id") int id){ return "method9 with id= "+id; }
  For this method to work, the parameter name should be “id” and it should be of type int.
  - @RequestMapping default method: If value is empty for a method, it works as default method for the controller class. For example:
  @RequestMapping() @ResponseBody public String defaultMethod(){ return "default method"; }
  As you have seen above that we have mapped
  /hometo
  HomeController, this method will be used for the default URI requests.
  - @RequestMapping fallback method: We can create a fallback method for the controller class to make sure we are catching all the client requests even though there are no matching handler methods. It is useful in sending custom 404 response pages to users when there are no handler methods for the request.
  @RequestMapping("*") @ResponseBody public String fallbackMethod(){ return "fallback method"; }
  Spring @PathVariable
  Spring @RequestParam
  Spring RestMapping Test Program
  We can use Spring RestTemplate to test the different methods above, but today I will use cURL commands to test these methods because these are simple and there are not much data flowing around.
  I have created a simple shell script springTest.sh to invoke all the above methods and print their output. It looks like below.
  #!/bin/bash echo "curl"; curl; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl"; curl; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl"; curl; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl"; curl; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl"; curl; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl -X POST"; curl -X POST; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl -X POST"; curl -X POST; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl -X GET"; curl -X GET; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl -H "name:pankaj""; curl -H "name:pankaj"; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl -H "name:pankaj" -H "id:1""; curl -H "name:pankaj" -H "id:1"; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl -H "Content-Type:text/html""; curl -H "Content-Type:text/html"; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl"; curl; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl -H "Content-Type:text/html" -H "Accept:application/json" -i"; curl -H "Content-Type:text/html" -H "Accept:application/json" -i; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl -H "Content-Type:text/html" -H "Accept:application/xml" -i"; curl -H "Content-Type:text/html" -H "Accept:application/xml" -i; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl"; curl; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl"; curl; printf "\n\n*****\n\n"; echo "curl"; curl; printf "\n\n*****DONE*****\n\n";
  Note that I have deployed my web application on Tomcat-7 and it’s running on port 9090. SpringRequestMappingExample is the servlet context of the application. Now when I execute this script through command line, I get following output.
  pankaj:~ pankaj$ ./springTest.sh curl method0 ***** curl default method ***** curl fallback method ***** curl method1 ***** curl method1 ***** curl -X POST method2 ***** curl -X POST method3 ***** curl -X GET method3 ***** curl -H name:pankaj method4 ***** curl -H name:pankaj -H id:1 method5 ***** curl -H Content-Type:text/html method6 ***** curl fallback method ***** curl -H Content-Type:text/html -H Accept:application/json -i HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 7 Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:14:10 GMT method6 ***** curl -H Content-Type:text/html -H Accept:application/xml -i HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Type: application/xml Content-Length: 7 Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:14:10 GMT method6 ***** curl method7 with id=1 ***** curl method8 with id= 10 and name=Lisa ***** curl method9 with id= 20 *****DONE***** pankaj:~ pankaj$
  Most of these are self understood, although you might want to check default and fallback methods. That’s all for Spring RequestMapping Example, I hope it will help you in understanding this annotation and it’s various features. You should download the sample project from below link and try different scenarios to explore it further.
  Well Explained, Thanks.!
  Hi, I have request URL as
  when I am trying to get arg using @RequestParam I am getting a null value.
  How to get XML contention as String?
  can some please help me answering
  how is a url template with integer value generated: “”
  It is about @PathVariable.
  How to pass integer value along with url in the above form? How does this happen dynamically?
  Thanks
  “`
  @RequestMapping(value = “springmvc/hello/{number:\\d+}”)
  public void hello(@PathVariable(value = “number”) int n) {
  System.out.println(n); // 101
  }
  “`
  This happens dynamically because servlet recognizes the same identifier (`number`) in the request mapping and `PathVariable` annotations, processes URL and passes the found number into the function parameter (`n`).
  How to make the requestParam key as case insensitive?
  For Example : public String welcome(@RequestParam(“orgID”) String orgID, ModelMap model)
  The request parameter “orgID” should be case insensitive. How to do this ?.
  I should be able to give the query-string as “orgid” or “orgId”. The parameter should be completely case-insensitive.
  thanks
  Thanking you
  Thank you sir very nice explanation on each annotations
  Very simple and well explained, thanks !
  Good post Pankaj. This was very crisp and clear 🙂
  I got an problem to get url param like this:[customer_name]=asc
  I want to sort param by :
  customer_name = field param will be sorting
  asc = ascending sorting
  @RequestMapping(value=”/listsort”,method = RequestMethod.GET)
  @ResponseBody
  public String listAll(@RequestParam(value=”sort[customer_name]”, required=false) String sort){
  return “Test with sort field = “+sort;
  }
  This is my fallback method,
  @RequestMapping(“*”)
  @ResponseBody
  public String fallBackMethod()
  {
  return “Error404”;
  }
  here, Error404 is my JSP page. if i gave any wrong URI it displays Error404 msg only, but it did’t display my Error404 JSP page,
  Now i want to display my Error404 JSP page if i gave any wrong URI
  Here in this case you have to define model if you want to send this msg to pass to Jsp page and use any of resource view handler for ex . InternalResourceViewResolver
  /WEB-INF/pages/
  .jsp
  Hello Pankaj… Good snippet to understand the concepts. Thanks.
  in method level request mapping that method return some string like method1, method2, where we need to configure relevant jsp to forward? In my case I want to redirect to customers list and my method is like
  @RequestMapping(value = “customers”, method = RequestMethod.GET)
  public String getCustomers(Model model, HttpServletRequest request) {
  ……..
  ……..
  return “customers”
  }
  is it enough to have customers.jsp or need to configure this “/customers” to customers.jsp
  Thank you so much, it helped clearing my doubts.
  very nice.thank u.
  I have to use dynamic URI but it fails for me. Assume the method value in controller is given below,
  Controller:
  @RequestMapping(value=”/updateSpecifiCertificate/{id}”)
  @ResponseBody
  public String method7(@PathVariable(“id”) int id){
  return “method7 with id=”+id;
  }
  jsp:
  /updateSpecifiCertificate/${conCertBean.certificateId}
  when i click the above link, it binds the dynamic id with the url and throws 404 as below,
  The requested resource (/updateSpecifiCertificate/CERT22) is not available.
  How to call my controller in this case, Please help me i have tried so many ways…..
  Thank You So Much…
  Vijay
  You declare id parameter as int.
  Hi,
  How to handle the multiple actions in single jsp using springMVC like
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  Thanks,
  Madhu R.
  while passing json code through restfull service by using soap ui tool.getting 415 error
  1)json:
  [{
  “AuthToken” : “token”,
  “empName”: “Name”,
  “empNo”: 111,
  “locName”: “kolkata”,
  “locNumber”: 713156
  }]
  2)bean class:
  private String AuthToken ;
  private String empName;
  private String name;
  private String empNo;
  private String locName ;
  private String locNumber;
  public void setAuthToken(String AuthToken) {
  this.AuthToken = AuthToken;
  }
  public String getAuthToken() {
  return AuthToken;
  }
  public void setEmpName(String empName) {
  this.empName = empName;
  }
  public String getEmpName() {
  return empName;
  }
  public void setName(String name) {
  this.name = name;
  }
  public String getName() {
  return name;
  }
  public void setEmpNo(String empNo) {
  this.empNo = empNo;
  }
  public String getEmpNo() {
  return empNo;
  }
  public void setLocName(String locName) {
  this.locName = locName;
  }
  public String getLocName() {
  return locName;
  }
  public void setLocNumber(String locNumber) {
  this.locNumber = locNumber;
  }
  public String getLocNumber() {
  return locNumber;
  }
  }
  3)controller:
  @RequestMapping(value=”/upload”, method={RequestMethod.POST},consumes={“application/json” },produces={“application/xml” })
  @ResponseBody
  public NurseInfo uploadNote(@Validated @RequestBody NurseInfo nurseInfo) throws Exception {
  // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  System.out.println(nurseInfo);
  System.out.println(nurseInfo.getEmpNo());
  String json=””+nurseInfo.getEmpName()+””;
  System.out.println(json);
  return nurseInfo;
  }
  4)Error:
  Apache Tomcat/7.0.16 – 415 –
  type
  Status report
  description
  The server refused this request because the request entity is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method ().
  Apache Tomcat/7.0.16
  Thanks in advancs
  It works fine but what if multiple json array is there (array inside array and again inside array)??
  how can i create this type of web services with Spring RestTemplate??
  Nice one..