[Springframework-developer] URL Mapping with Wildcards

[Martin H. <mar...@ya...>]

Hi,

I am writing to the developer group for some guidance.

I have been using the Spring framework for some time.  I originally used the
source that came with Rod's great J2EE book along with a handful of custom
pieces.  Seeing how the work has turned into a viable framework I am
migrating to the 0.9.1 release.

With the project I am working on I need to map URLs that end in wildcards to
servlets for processing.  I have found the current release needs a bit of
updating to work properly.

The current release does not seem to handle

   <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>servletName</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/start/*</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
   
very well.  To fix this problem I updated my local implementations of
AbstractUrlHandlerMapping and PropertiesMethodNameResolver and replaced

  String lookupPath = WebUtils.getLookupPathForRequest(request,
    this.alwaysUseFullPath);

with

  String lookupPath = request.getRequestURI();

after which the code maps the URL correctly.  It is a hack and it works but
I would like to see the framework correctly handle these type of request.
Another symptom of the current code was that it seemed to work for /foo* or
even /foo/bar* but not /foo/*.

Is there anybody in the developer group that wants to tackle this issue?
Should I look at CVS and submit a patch?

Thanks,

Martin