[Springframework-developer] Url Mapping Problem

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

Hi All,

Thanks to Jean-Pierre the for the alwaysUseFullPath suggestion.  It did
solve my problem where I was mapping /foo/[a-z]* to a servlet, but I am
running into another quandary.

When I map longer URL's the code seems to break.  I am trying to map

   /journal/entry/2003-aug10/test/DSCN5023.jpg

to a web form.  My project-servlet.xml looks like:

   <bean id="urlMapping" class="...">
      <property name="alwaysUseFullPath"><value>true</value></property>
      <property name="mappings">
         <props>
         <prop key="/journal/entry.html">JournalEntryForm</prop>
         <prop key="/journal/entry/*">JournalEntryForm</prop>
         ...
         </props>
      </property>
   </bean>

and within my web.xml I use the following:

   <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>project451</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/journal/*</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>

I have tracked down the problem to PathMatcher.java where the conditional
"patIdxStart > patIdxEnd" seems to disallow my URL to be properly mapped.
As a test I just return true at that spot and everything is fine.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with the path matcher?

Thanks,

Martin

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PS Here's some debug output from within PathMatcher in that if statement:
   looking for '/journal/entry/2003-aug10/test/DSCN5023.jpg' in
     '/journal/entry/*'
   pattern=/journal/entry/*
   str=/journal/entry/2003-aug10/test/DSCN5023.jpg
   patIdxStart=3
   patIdxEnd=2
   strIdxStart=3
   strIdxEnd=4
   returning false 3a