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user1555190
user1555190

Reputation: 3243

how to create @webservlet url pattern like REST

Im tryign to create a url like the following, is this even allowed, using annotation @WebServlet ?

urlPatterns = { "/name/*/title" }

I can the following to work

urlPatterns = { "/name/*" }

I am completely new to this, i want to do something like rest type thing, i know how to do this using spring mvc. but here im limited to webservlets

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6158

Answers (1)

Saif Asif
Saif Asif

Reputation: 5668

Yes the urlPattern urlPatterns = { "/name/*/title" } is completely legal and should work fine.

You can declare it like 

@WebServlet( 
  urlPatterns={"/one/*/abc"} , 
  name="ServletOne", 
  initParams={ 
     @WebInitParam(name = "name", value = "abc") 
  }
)

How-ever, keep in mind that here * is not treated as a wild-card. Servlets do not support wild-cards patterns in the middle of the mapping. So /name/*/title does not mean /name/<anything>/title.

Edit

If you want to hit a URL like /name/*/title where * can be anything, then the URL /one/* should serve the purpose just fine.

Upvotes: 4

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