Spring MVC: Mapping Multiple URLs to Same Controller
I have like 20+ forms which are linked from the same page. Some forms share the same controller, while others use their own. For example, form A
, B
, and C
use DefaultController
, while form D
uses ControllerD
.
What I would like to achieve is to map the URL to each form in a consistent way.
So, ideally, the link page would look like :
-
either this
<a href="/formA.html">Form A</a> <a href="/formB.html">Form B</a> <a href="/formC.html">Form C</a> <a href="/formD.html">Form D</a>
-
or this:
<a href="/form.html?name=A">Form A</a> <a href="/form.html?name=B">Form B</a> <a href="/form.html?name=C">Form C</a> <a href="/form.html?name=D">Form D</a>
The question is how to map each URL to the appropriate controller. With the first URL pattern, you would map formD.html
to ControllerD
, but not sure how to map form[A|B|C].html
to DefaultController
. With the second URL pattern, I don't even know where to begin...
Has anyone done something like this?
Since nobody seems to have put the full answer on here yet:
The @RequestMapping
annotation can take an array for its "value" parameter. To map this at the controller level using the first pattern, you would use:
@Controller
@RequestMapping(value={"/formA.html", "/formB.html", "/formC.html"})
public class ControllerA {
}
And then:
@Controller
@RequestMapping(value="/formD.html")
public class ControllerD {
}