Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Spring mvc: @RequestMapping annotation example

@RequestMapping annotation is used to map the web requests to methods in request-handling classes.

@Controller
public class HelloWorldController {

         @RequestMapping("welcome")
         public ModelAndView getWelcomeMessage() {
                  ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView("hello");
                  modelAndView.addObject("message", "Welcome to spring MVC programming");
                  return modelAndView;
         }

}

For example, as you see above snippet, I mapped the url /welcome to getWelcomeMessage.

When you hit the request url {SERVER_URL}/welcome, getWelcomeMessage() method is invoked.

Can I add @RequestMapping on a class?
Yes you can add @RequestMapping annotation to a class.

@Controller
@RequestMapping("greeting")
public class HelloWorldController {

         @RequestMapping("welcome")
         public ModelAndView getWelcomeMessage() {
                  ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView("hello");
                  modelAndView.addObject("message", "Welcome to spring MVC programming");
                  return modelAndView;
         }
}


When you hit the url {SERVER_URL}/greeting/welcome (class url mapping followed by method url mapping), getWelcomeMessage() method is called.

Find the below working application.

HelloWorldController.java
package com.sample.myApp.controllers;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@Controller
@RequestMapping("greeting")
public class HelloWorldController {

 @RequestMapping("welcome")
 public ModelAndView getWelcomeMessage() {
  ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView("hello");
  modelAndView.addObject("message", "Welcome to spring MVC programming");
  return modelAndView;
 }

 @RequestMapping("hello")
 public ModelAndView getHelloMessage() {
  ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView("hello");
  modelAndView.addObject("message", "Hello, How are you");
  return modelAndView;
 }

}


Create hello.jsp file under WEB-INF/jsp folder.

hello.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Hello World Spring Web MVC</title>
</head>
<body>
 <h2>${message}</h2>
</body>
</html>

Create web.xml, HelloWorld-servlet.xml files under WEB-INF folder.


web.xml
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
 xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
   http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

 <display-name>Spring MVC Hello WorldApplication</display-name>

 <servlet>
  <servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>

 <servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

HelloWorld-servlet.xml
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

 <context:component-scan
  base-package="com.sample.myApp" />

 <bean
  class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
  <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
  <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
 </bean>

</beans>


Create index.jsp file under webapp folder.


index.jsp
<html>
<body>
 <h2>Hello World!</h2>
</body>
</html>

Project structure looks like below.


Run the application on server.

When you hit the url ‘http://localhost:8080/springdemo/greeting/welcome’, you can able to see below kind of window.



When you hit the url ‘http://localhost:8080/springdemo/greeting/hello’, you can able to see below kind of window.



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