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Philipp Mitterer
Philipp Mitterer

Reputation: 913

Multiple @RequestMapping (value, method pairs) in Spring MVC

I would like to achieve something like this with Spring MVC

@RequestMapping(value = "/user/{userId}", method =  RequestMethod.DELETE)
@RequestMapping(value = "/user/{userId}/delete", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public void deleteUser(@PathVariable String userId) {
    ...
}

This would give me a common endpoint for REST calls and standard HTML form posts. Is it possible to do with Spring MVC? All I can come up with is

@RequestMapping(value = { "/user/{userId}", "/user/{userId}/delete"}, method =  {RequestMethod.DELETE, RequestMethod.POST})
public void deleteUser(@PathVariable String userId) {
    ...
}

but the result is slightly different because a POST to "/user/{userId}" would also delete the user.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2059

Answers (2)

Shane Voisard
Shane Voisard

Reputation: 1145

Sorry, got it wrong way around.

In mature REST architecture, code should use a URL to refer to a resource and use HTTP method to define the action on the resource. So just define a @RequestMapping("/user/{userId}/delete", method = RequestMethod.DELETE) and eliminate the POST. See DELETE vs POST.

Upvotes: 4

Subler
Subler

Reputation: 657

One thing you could do is make 2 separate methods with their own RequestMapping annotation, and then just pass the parameters on to a different method, where you do actual stuff:

@RequestMapping(value = "/user/{userId}/delete", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public void deleteUserPost(@PathVariable String userId) {
    deleteUser(userId);
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/user/{userId}", method = RequestMethod.DELETE)
public void deleteUserDelete(@PathVariable String userId) {
    deleteUser(userId);
}

private void deleteUser(String userId){
    //Do things here
}

Upvotes: 5

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