I have a strange scenario in which my controller is not invoked unless I map the dispatcher servlet to /* in web.xml. I have defined a controller with a RequestMapping:
@Controller
public class UserController {
@RequestMapping(value = "/rest/users", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView getUsers(HttpServletRequest request) throws RestException {
...
}
}
And an application context:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.test.rest.controller" />
Finally this is mapped in web.xml:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>rest-servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/restContext.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>rest-servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
This works as expected i.e. I can make requests to /rest/users. However if I change the web.xml mapping to:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>rest-servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
I get an MVC error:
WARN servlet.PageNotFound: No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/rest/users] in DispatcherServlet with name 'rest-servlet'.
It seems really strange because the error indicates that the request is being mapped to the dispatcher-servlet, yet the only thing that has changed is the servlet mapping.
Has anyone else encountered this?
